INTRODUCTION: The Challenge of Change
1 Pope Francis interview by Father Antonio Spadaro, “A Big Heart Open to God,” La Civiltà Cattolica, September 2013.
2 Palabra Nueva, the magazine of the Archbishopric of Havana directed by Orlando Marquez, published the notes that Cardinal Bergoglio gave to Cardinal Ortega. March 26, 2013.
3 Austen Ivereigh, The Great Reformer (New York: Henry Holt, 2014), 110.
4 Pope Francis interview by Ferruccio de Bortoli, Editor, Corriere della Sera, “Benedetto XVI non è una statua (Benedict XVI is not a statue),” March 5, 2014.
5 Annuarium Statisticum Ecclesiae, Vatican City, 2015.
CHAPTER 1: The Bishop of the Slums
1 Pope Francis homily, Chrism Mass, April 17, 2014.
2 Pope Francis interview by Father Antonio Spadaro, La Civiltà Cattolica, February 2014.
3 Ibid.
4 Francesca Ambrogetti and Sergio Rubin, El Jesuita (Buenos Aires: Ediciones Javier Bergara), 2010.
5 Ivereigh, The Great Reformer, 61.
6 Gustavo Gutierrez, A Theology of Liberation (New York: Orbis, Maryknoll, 1971).
7 The Economist, August 20, 2014.
8 Leonardo Boff, Church, Charism and Power: Liberation Theology and the Institutional Church (New York: Crossroad, 1985).
CHAPTER 2: Peter’s Pence
1 Fiona Ehlers, “Vatileaks Scandal: Documents Expose Pope’s Frail Leadership,” Der Spiegel, June 4, 2012.
2 Father Filippo Di Giacomo, “Il Papa della porta accanto,” Il Venerdi, July 11, 2014.
3 Annual Report, IOR, December 2014, www.ior.va/content/dam/ior/.
4 “The Francis Effect, The Pope as Turnaround CEO,” The Economist, April 19, 2014.
CHAPTER 3: A Deeper Theology of Women
1 G. Galeotti and L. Scaraffia, Papa Francesco e le donne (Milan: Il Sole 24 Ore, 2014), 128–29.
2 “The Church Needs More Female Theologians, Says Pope Francis,” Catholic Herald, December 6, 2014.
3 Franca Giansoldati, Il Messaggero, July 2, 2014.
4 Phyllis Zagano, National Catholic Reporter, July 2, 2014.
5 Melinda Henneberger, “Pope Francis to Nuns: Don’t Be Old Maids,” Washington Post, May 8, 2013.
6 Michelle A. Gonzalez, “Pope Francis, Gender Equality and the Idea of Machismo,” National Catholic Reporter, September 26, 2013. Gonzalez is associate professor of religious studies at the University of Miami.
7 www.lauramcalister.com/2014/12/09/female-theologians-strawberries-cake, December 9, 2014.
8 Nora Galli de’ Paratesi, Le brutte parole: semantica dell’eufemismo (Milano: Mondadori, 1973), and Lingua toscana in bocca ambrosiana, Tendenze verso l’Italiano standard: un’inchiesta sociolinguistica (Bologna: Il Mulino, 1984).
9 Michele Mancino and Giovanni Romeo, Clero criminale: L’onore della Chiesa e i delitti degli ecclesiastici nell’Italia della Controriforma (Laterza: Bari, 2013).
10 Galeotti and Scaraffia, Papa Francesco, 43.
11 NRVC/CARA, National Religious Vocation Conference, Report, 2009.
12 Francis X. Clooney, SJ, “Sister Laurie Brink OP and the CDF,” America, April 22, 2012.
13 David Gibson, “Vatican’s Doctrinal Chief Renews Criticism of US Nuns,” National Catholic Reporter, September 2, 2014.
14 Patrick Craine, Lifesitenews.com, March 7, 2011.
15 www.bustle.com, January 18, 2015. Catherine Hornby, “Women Stage Pink Smoke Protest in Rome as Men-Only Conclave Begins,” Reuters, March 12, 2013.
16 www.univision.com/interactivos/openpage/2014-02-06/la-voz-del-pueblo-portada-en.
17 FutureChurch, press release, January 15, 2013.
18 National Catholic Reporter, January 13, 2015.
19 Francis X. Rocca, “Why Not Women Priests? The Papal Theologian Explains,” Catholic News Service, January 31, 2013.
20 Cristina Odone, “For the Sake of the Priesthood’s Future, Catholics Need to Talk about Women Priests,” Daily Telegraph, January 21, 2015.
21 Hornby, “Women Stage Pink Smoke.”
22 Robert McClory, “A Greater Role for Women in the Church,” National Catholic Reporter, February 18, 2014.
CHAPTER 4: Execrable Acts
1 Father Thomas P. Doyle, O. P., “How Survivors Have Changed History,” Chicago SNAP Convention, August 2 2014.
2 “Child Abuse Scandals at the Heart of the Catholic Church,” Agence France Presse, February 5, 2014.
3 Sir Anthony Hart, retired judge, currently directs official inquiry into institutional child abuse in Northern Ireland.
4 McKenzie, Baker, and Lee, “Church’s Suicide Victims,” Canberra Times, April 13, 2012.
5 Dan Rather Reports, July 30, 2013.
6 La Repubblica, letter to Professor Giorgio Odifreddi, September 25, 2013.
7 Alan Zarembo, “Many Researchers Taking a Different View of Pedophilia,” Los Angeles Times, January 14, 2013.
8 Ibid.
9 Jon Henley, “Paedophilia: Bringing Dark Desires to Light,” Guardian, January 3, 2013.
10 Ibid.
11 Jorge Maria Bergoglio and Abraham Skorka, On Heaven and Earth (New York: Random House, 2013), 50.
12 See: www.bishop-accountability, July 2014.
13 Vatican audience, April 11, 2014.
CHAPTER 5: Family Matters
1 Francesco Viviano, “Noi, la famiglia che ha salvato dalla morte in mare 3,000 migranti,” La Repubblica, November 11, 2014.
2 Father Robert Dodaro, Remaining in the Truth of Christ: Marriage and Communion in the Catholic Church (San Francisco: Ignatius Press, 2014).
3 Ibid.
4 Juan Perez-Soba, The Gospel of the Family: Going Beyond Cardinal Kasper’s Proposal in the Debate on Marriage, Civil Re-Marriage and Communion in the Church (San Francisco: Ignatius Press, 2014).
5 www.people-press.org/2012/02/14.
6 Center for Applied Research in the Apostolate, Georgetown University, 2014.
7 www.mycatholicfamily.org, January–February 2014.
8 Tablet, July 5, 2014.
9 Thomas Reese, National Catholic Reporter, October l7, 2014.
10 Erasmus, “Catholicism and the Family,” Economist, October 6, 2014.
11 Economist, October 25, 2014.
12 UCANews.com, November 4, 2014.
13 Press bulletin, Vatican, November 5, 2014. Papal speech at the Tribunal of the Roman Rota.
CHAPTER 6: @Pontifex
1 Beppe Severgnini, “Che cosa fare se telefona il Papa, Nove consigli se al telefono c’è Sua Santità,” Corriere della Sera, August 23, 2013.
2 Ferruccio De Bortoli, Corriere della Sera, interview May 9, 2014. De Bartoli is editor-in-chief of the Italian daily.
3 British Pathe YouTube version: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GVCfktdcMXM.
4 www.stayathomepundit.com/2013/05/new-at-the-broad-side-pope-francis-on-religious-tolerance/#sthash.bHd0PL8w.dpuf.
5 Clay Ziegler, www.ideagrove.com/blog/2013/03/heads-up-what-the-new-pope-is-teaching-us-about-marketing.html.
6 “The PR Genius Who Helped Make the Pope Popular: Francis’s Marketing Mastermind,” Mail Online, November 21, 2012.
7 Vladimir Polchi, “Libri, francobolli o braccialetti, Papa Francesco vende benissimo,” Il Venerdi di La Repubblica, October 24, 2014.
8 Stefano Ronchetti, interview with the author, February 1, 2015.
9 Polly Toynbee, “On Charlie Hebdo Pope Francis Is Using The Wife-Beater’s Defence,” Guardian, January 6, 2015.
10 For the full text, see www.dmi.unipg.it/~mamone/sci-dem/contri/capone.htm.
11 Andrew Brown, “Vatileaks: Secret Conspiracy, or a Butler Covering His Back?” Guardian, April 30, 2013.
12 Miguel R. Camus, “Tweets on Pope Francis’ PH visit break Twitter records,” Philippine Daily Inquirer, January 30, 2015.
13 “Francis’ ‘Boom’ on Twitter,” Vatican Insider, November 4, 2013.
14 Nick Squires, “Rabbit Breeders Tell Pope Francis: ‘Rabbits Do Not Have a Rampant Sex Drive,” January 20, 2015.
15 Independent, May 23, 2014.
16 Paul Tighe interviewed, Oct. 27, 2015, www.vatican.va: www.pccs.va/index.php/en/news2/attualita/item/2635-monsignor-paul-tighe-discusses-how-the-vatican-has-embraced-digital-platforms.
CHAPTER 7: Saving the Sistine
1 Lucetta Scaraffia, “Elogio del direttore dei musei Vaticani,” L’Osservatore Romano, June 17, 2011.
2 Antonio Spadaro S.J. “A Big Heart Open to God,” America, September 30, 2013.
3 Rabbi Noam E. Marans, “Pope Francis, Marc Chagall and the Jews,” (Missouri: Religious News Service, March 3, 2014).
4 “Archeologia: a giugno annunciate nuove scoperte dalle catacombe di Santa Tecla a Roma” (Rome: ADNkronos agency, February 27, 2014).
5 Nick Squires, “Catholic priests urged to liven up sermons,” Daily Telegraph, November 6, 2011.
6 Natalia Aspesi, interview, La Repubblica, July 24, 2012.
7 “A treasury of talents” (editorial), Osservatore Romano, June 17, 2011.
8 Vittorio Zincone, www.vittoriozincone.it, June 30, 2011.
9 Philip Pullella, “Vatican Marks Anniversary of 1972 Attack on Michelangelo’s Pieta,” Reuters, May 21, 2013.
10 Antonio Paolucci, “The Restoration of the Pauline Chapel,” June 30, 2009, http://mv.vatican.va/3_EN/pages/z-Info/Stampa/pdf/Ultima_opera_Michelangelo_pittore.pdf.
11 Galeotti and Scaraffia, Papa Francesco.
12 Judith Harris, “Debating a Vatican Cover-Up,” ARTnews, January 1, 2010.
13 Pope Julius III, in The Catholic Encyclopedia (New York: Robert Appleton Co., 1910), accessed August 8, 2014, www.newadvent.org/cathen/08564a.htm.
14 Paolucci, “Restoration of the Pauline Chapel.”
15 Anna Tahinci heads the Art History Department, Glassell School of Art, Museum of Fine Arts, Houston.
16 Loren Partridge, Fabrizio Mancinelli, and Gianluigi Colalucci, Michelangelo the Last Judgment: A Glorious Restoration (New York: Abrams, 1997).
17 See: http://msopal29.myweb.uga.edu/AntiRestoration.html.
18 Holland Cotter, “James Beck, 77, Art Scholar and Critic of Conservation Is Dead,” New York Times, May 29, 2007.
19 See: www.ariasrl.net/2014/06/16/aria-celestiale-nella-cappella-sistina-a-ottobre-nuovo-impianto-di-climatizzazione.
20 Nicole Winfield, “Sistine Chapel Pollution Levels Threaten Michelangelo Frescoes,” Associated Press, October 17, 2013.
21 See: www.catholicculture.org/culture/library/view.cfm?recnum=3067.
22 Concordat Article 33: “The disposition of the existing Catacombs in Rome and other parts of the territory of the Kingdom are reserved to the Holy See, with the consequent honour of keeping, maintaining and conserving them. The Holy See can, with the observance of the law of the State and saving the eventual rights of third parties, proceed to future excavations and the transfer of the bodies of the saints.”
23 Sandro Orlando, “Inchiesta sulle proprietà immobiliari del Vaticano,” Il Mondo, May 18, 2007.
24 Ibid.
25 Ibid.
26 Orazio La Rocca, “Sembrano Magazzini,” La Repubblica, May 16, 2013.
CHAPTER 8: The Pope of the Periphery
1 Lucio Brunelli and Gianni Valenti, “Lo spazio e il tempo di Papa Francesco” (Pope Francis’ Concept of Time and Space), Limes, March 2014.
2 Neil Swidey, “The Promise of Francis,” Boston Globe, February 23, 2014.
3 On Heaven and Earth: Pope Francis on Faith, Family and the Church in the 21st Century (London: Bloomsbury, 2013). Originally published in Spanish in 2010.
4 Tina Beattie, “Part of the Solution, Not Part of the Problem,” Tablet, May 10, 2014.
5 Andrea Tornielli, Pope Francis: This Economy Kills (Milan: Edizioni Piemme, 2015).
6 Lorenzo Bini Smagh, La Repubblica, February 6, 2015.
7 “Pope Francis’ unfriendly visit,” Jerusalem Post, May 27, 2014.
8 “Pope Francis Wrote Cuban Book in 1998 between John Paul II and Fidel Castro,” Huffington Post, December 20, 2014. Details of the booklet were published by Austen Ivereigh in his 2014 biography The Great Reformer.
9 Michael Sean Winters, “US Church Divided on How to ‘Read’ Pope Francis,” Tablet, June 12, 2014.
10 David Gibson, “Archbishop Chaput Blasts Vatican Debate on Family,” National Catholic Reporter, October 21, 2014.
11 Timothy Dolan, “The Pope’s Case for Virtuous Capitalism,” Wall Street Journal, May 22, 2014.
12 Pew Research Center statistics, 2013.
13 David Curry, “Persecution of Christians a Significant Indicator of Future World Chaos,” Fox News, February 9, 2015.
14 Anna Bono, “The Predicament of Christians in sub-Saharan Africa,” published online by the Italian Atlantic Committee.
15 John Barker, “St. Lawrence Priest Awarded PhD in Canon Law for Study of Polygamy in Sub-Saharan Africa,” Thompson Citizen, June 13, 2012.
CHAPTER 9: Whirlwind
1 Valentina Alazraki, interview with Pope Francis, Televisa News, Mexico, March 13, 2015.
2 Pope Francis speech, interdenominational rally, St. Peter’s Square, July 3, 2015.
3 Massimo Franco, interview with Archbishop Victor Manuel Fernandez, Corriere della Sera, May 10, 2015.
4 Sarah Mac Donald, “ ‘Conformist’ younger clergy wary of Francis,” Tablet, August 4, 2014.
5 Cindy Wooden, “When It Comes to Scheduling, Pope Says He’s Definitely Not Infallible,” Catholic News Service, May 1, 2015.
6 Tablet, editorial, May 23, 2015.
7 Pope Francis, opening remarks, General Assembly of Caritas Internationalis, May 12, 2015. Caritas is a confederation of 165 Catholic charity and aid organizations operating in two hundred countries.
8 Riccardo Cascioli, La Nuova Bussola Quotidiana (www.lanuovabq.it, Italian Catholic journalists’ website), May 2015.
9 Sandro Magister, China, Cardinal Zen against Saint Egidio, http://chiesa.espresso.repubblica.it/articolo/1350164?eng=y, February 9, 2012.
10 Naftali Bendavid, “Europe’s empty churches go on sale,” Wall Street Journal, January 2, 2015.
11 According to a Pew Research study released May 12, 2015.
12 NBC-TV, June 1, 2013.
13 ABC News, May 8, 2015.
14 Vatican Insider website, managed by La Stampa, Turin (www.vaticaninsider.stampa.it), February 18, 2013.
15 Walter Mayr, “Where Is Pope Francis Steering the Church?” Der Spiegel International, May 29, 2015.
16 Cardinal Cormac Murphy-O’Connor, “Cometh the hour, cometh the man,” Tablet, May 7, 2015, citing his memoir: An English Spring (London: Bloomsbury, 2015).
17 Jamie Manson, National Catholic Reporter, May 28, 2015.
18 Angelo Becciu, La Repubblica, January 21, 2014.
19 Lord Patten, lecture at World Communications Day, St. Patrick’s, London, May 27, 2015.
20 Rachael Kohn, interview with Federico Wals, Australian Broadcasting Corp., May 15, 2015.
21 Juan Berretta, interview with Pope Francis, La voz del pueblo, May 2015. See: www.lavozdelpueblo.com.ar/nota-27095-aoro-ir-a-una-pizzera-y-comerme-una-buen.
22 Hans Küng, “A Vatican Spring? ” New York Times, February 27, 2013.
23 Walter Mayr, “Where Is Pope Francis Leading the Church?” Der Spiegel International, May 29, 2015.
24 Hans Küng, Can We Save the Catholic Church? (London: William Collins, 2013).
25 Henry James, Italian Hours, 1909.