A Wounded Shepherd: Pope Francis and His Struggle to Convert the Catholic Church Audiobook (Free)

Pursuing his critically acclaimed The Great Reformer, Austen Ivereigh’s colorful, clear-eyed portrait of Pope Francis will take us in the Vatican’s urgent issue over the future of the church in Wounded Shepherd.

This deeply contextual biography centers around the tensions generated from the pope’s try to turn the Church from power and tradition and outwards to engage humanity with God’s mercy. Through fights with corrupt bankers and worldly cardinals, in turbulent conferences and on global in regards to a Wounded Shepherd: Pope Francis and His Battle to Convert the Catholic Chapel trips, history’s first Latin-American pope has attempted to reshape the Cathedral to evangelize the modern age. At the same time, he provides stirred other leaders’ deep-seated dread the Cathedral is capitulating to modernity-leaders who have challenged his bet to create a more welcoming, attentive institution.

Facing rebellions over his enabling sacraments for the divorced and his attempt to create a more ‘ecological’ Catholicism, as well as a firestorm of criticism for the Church’s record on sexual misuse, Francis emerges as a leader of remarkable vision and skill using a relentless spiritual focus-a leader who’s at peacefulness in the turmoil surrounding him.

With entertaining anecdotes, insider accounts, and expert analysis, Ivereigh’s trip through the main element episodes of Francis’s reform in Rome as well as the wider Church brings into clear focus the frustrations and fury, aswell as the joys and successes, of one of the very most remarkable pontificates from the contemporary age.