Francis,Mario Escobar Escobar

FrancisMan of Prayer\nAuthor(s): Mario Escobar\nFormat: Paperback\nPublisher: Thomas Nelson Publishers, United States\nImprint: Thomas Nelson Publishers\nISBN-13: 9780849922039, 978-0849922039\nSynopsis\nFirst Jesuit. First Latin American. And a new pope who chose as his first act a simple request: please pray for me.\n\nThe recent resignation of Pope Benedict XVI took the world by surprise and for good reason. More than 600 years had passed since a pope last left his post.\n\nJorge Mario Bergoglio, now Pope Francis, is a man of prayer, a man of action, and a humble man who has always promoted others over himself. In fact, it was Bergoglio who bowed out of the running in the papal election of 2005 to facilitate the rise of Benedict XVI.\n\nHowever, the new pope faces a Catholic Church in crisisa church that has lost the media pull of John Paul II and is still hounded by pedophile scandals and the filtration of documents from former papal administrations. His first year may not be an .