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Pilgrimage: My Search for the Real Pope Francis
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A down-to-earth and deeply intimate portrait of Pope Francis and his faith, based on interviews with the men and women who knew him simply as Jorge Mario Bergoglio
Early on the evening of March 13, 2013, the newly elected Pope Francis stepped out onto the balcony of St. Peter’s Basilica and did something remarkable: Before he imparted his blessing to the crowd, he asked the crowd to bless him, then bowed low to receive this grace. In the days that followed, Mark K. Shriver—along with the rest of the world—was astonished to see a pope who paid his own hotel bill, eschewed limousines, and made his home in a suite of austere rooms in a Vatican guesthouse rather than the grand papal apartment in the Apostolic Palace. By setting an example of humility and accessibility, Francis breathed new life into the Catholic Church, attracting the admiration of Catholics and non-Catholics alike.
In Pilgrimage, Shriver retraces Francis’s personal journey, revealing the origins of his open, unpretentious style and explaining how it revitalized Shriver’s own faith and renewed his commitment to the Church. To help us understand how Jorge Mario Bergoglio became Pope Francis, Shriver travels to Bergoglio’s native Argentina to meet with the people who knew him as a child, as a young Jesuit priest, and as a reformist bishop. Shriver visits the confessional where Bergoglio first felt called to a faith-based life and takes us to the humble parish where the future pontiff’s pastoral career began: in a church created from a converted vegetable shed in an area just outside the city of Buenos Aires. In these impoverished surroundings, Bergoglio answered Christ’s call to feed the hungry, clothe the naked, and shelter the homeless, following the example set by his papal namesake, St. Francis of Assisi.
In this deeply reported yet highly personal book, Mark K. Shriver explores how Francis's commitment has struck a chord in the hearts of millions who long to make faith, love, humility, and mercy part of their lives as they go out into the world to serve and learn from the most marginalized.
Praise for Pilgrimage

“Well-researched . . . Pilgrimage shines a light on [Pope Francis’s] unexplored aspects. . . . A very timely and important addition to the literature on the life and person and thinking of Pope Francis. Everybody interested in Pope Francis will enjoy reading this biography.”The Washington BookReview
“Apt to stir the soul of readers . . . While this is a rich telling of Bergoglio’s life and ascension to the papacy, it is more movingly a spiritual memoir that draws us deep into a knowing of this at once humble and soul-stirring rekindler of faith.”Chicago Tribune
“A fascinating portrait of a man and a nourishing account of spiritual yearning.”Booklist
“This fast-paced and fascinating tale takes us on Jorge Mario Bergoglio’s pilgrimage from his grandmother’s knee in the Italian-Argentine community, through years of success and sorrow in the tumultuous country that he loved, to his surprise election as Pope Francis.”—Cokie Roberts, New York Times bestselling author of Capital Dames: The Civil War and the Women of Washington, 1848–1868 

“All people of good faith, including those whose lives are not guided by religious beliefs, will be inspired and enlightened by the compelling manner in which Pilgrimage brings us closer to the heart and mind of Jorge Mario Bergoglio,...
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A down-to-earth and deeply intimate portrait of Pope Francis and his faith, based on interviews with the men and women who knew him simply as Jorge Mario Bergoglio
Early on the evening of March 13, 2013, the newly elected Pope Francis stepped out onto the balcony of St. Peter’s Basilica and did something remarkable: Before he imparted his blessing to the crowd, he asked the crowd to bless him, then bowed low to receive this grace. In the days that followed, Mark K. Shriver—along with the rest of the world—was astonished to see a pope who paid his own hotel bill, eschewed limousines, and made his home in a suite of austere rooms in a Vatican guesthouse rather than the grand papal apartment in the Apostolic Palace. By setting an example of humility and accessibility, Francis breathed new life into the Catholic Church, attracting the admiration of Catholics and non-Catholics alike.
In Pilgrimage, Shriver retraces Francis’s personal journey, revealing the origins of his open, unpretentious style and explaining how it revitalized Shriver’s own faith and renewed his commitment to the Church. To help us understand how Jorge Mario Bergoglio became Pope Francis, Shriver travels to Bergoglio’s native Argentina to meet with the people who knew him as a child, as a young Jesuit priest, and as a reformist bishop. Shriver visits the confessional where Bergoglio first felt called to a faith-based life and takes us to the humble parish where the future pontiff’s pastoral career began: in a church created from a converted vegetable shed in an area just outside the city of Buenos Aires. In these impoverished surroundings, Bergoglio answered Christ’s call to feed the hungry, clothe the naked, and shelter the homeless, following the example set by his papal namesake, St. Francis of Assisi.
In this deeply reported yet highly personal book, Mark K. Shriver explores how Francis's commitment has struck a chord in the hearts of millions who long to make faith, love, humility, and mercy part of their lives as they go out into the world to serve and learn from the most marginalized.
Praise for Pilgrimage

“Well-researched . . . Pilgrimage shines a light on [Pope Francis’s] unexplored aspects. . . . A very timely and important addition to the literature on the life and person and thinking of Pope Francis. Everybody interested in Pope Francis will enjoy reading this biography.”The Washington BookReview
“Apt to stir the soul of readers . . . While this is a rich telling of Bergoglio’s life and ascension to the papacy, it is more movingly a spiritual memoir that draws us deep into a knowing of this at once humble and soul-stirring rekindler of faith.”Chicago Tribune
“A fascinating portrait of a man and a nourishing account of spiritual yearning.”Booklist
“This fast-paced and fascinating tale takes us on Jorge Mario Bergoglio’s pilgrimage from his grandmother’s knee in the Italian-Argentine community, through years of success and sorrow in the tumultuous country that he loved, to his surprise election as Pope Francis.”—Cokie Roberts, New York Times bestselling author of Capital Dames: The Civil War and the Women of Washington, 1848–1868 

“All people of good faith, including those whose lives are not guided by religious beliefs, will be inspired and enlightened by the compelling manner in which Pilgrimage brings us closer to the heart and mind of Jorge Mario Bergoglio,...
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        Former Maryland state legislator Shriver (A Good Man) exquisitely crafts this look at the life of Pope Francis. To date, the significant biographies of Francis—including Elisabetta Piqué’s Life and Revolution, Austen Ivereigh’s The Great Reformer, and Paul Vallely’s Untying the Knots—have been written by Latin American or British authors, leaving a space for Shriver to add the democratic, liberal, and personal perspectives of American Catholicism to the pope’s story. Significantly, Shriver opens his telling in Cordoba, Argentina, in the 1990s, during what Francis called “a time of great interior crisis.” This two-year period of exile from his Jesuit order became a period of desolation of the soul that led to the conversion of Francis (then Bergoglio) from “pious patriarch” to the “gregarious shepherd” the world knows today. “How a person changes has always been the narrative that most interests me,” Shriver writes. He interviews Francis’s students and colleagues from that era, and in these interviews, readers glimpse the teología del pueblo (theology of the people) that shapes the pope today. In this excellent book, Shriver takes readers on a pilgrimage to numerous significant people and places in the life of Pope Francis.

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        November 15, 2016
        Shriver, son of Eunice Kennedy and Sargent Shriver, writes in his introduction that following the deaths of his parents and others close to him, he fell into a spiritual crisis, manifested as a yearning for a church he could believe in again. Then Pope Francis came on the scene, and a hopeful Shriver wanted to know more. So began a personal and literal journey as Shriver went to Argentina and beyond to trace the life of Jorge Mario Bergoglio. The premise, that one could learn about the man through the environment from which he sprang and the people who nourished him, is ably born out here. Playmates, friends, teachers, and many of the Jesuits (and a rabbi) who walked beside Bergoglio on his spiritual path are interviewed. There is also solid background about the political upheaval in Argentina during Bergoglio's time there. There's no interview with the pope, though Shriver tried to get one. The non-interview, as it turned out, affected the author profoundly. Both a fascinating portrait of a man and a nourishing account of spiritual yearning.(Reprinted with permission of Booklist, copyright 2016, American Library Association.)

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        Starred review from October 1, 2016

        Having written a book reflecting on the role of Catholicism in the life of his father, Sargent Shriver, the author (A Good Man) was asked to write a similar book on Pope Francis. Like many others, Shriver reexamined his relationship to the church after the election of a new Pope who seemed so unlike those before him. Shriver traveled to Argentina to interview many people who knew Francis intimately, both friends and those who had issues with him, as well as several of the poor with whom Father Bergoglio would interact even after he became a cardinal. At once a portrait of the young Bergoglio, the milieu out of which he came, and of a sometimes disaffected Catholic (Shriver himself) who has come to a new appreciation of the church, this book will especially appeal to those who want to learn more about Francis's origins. VERDICT While many good books have been written about Pope Francis, most notably Austin Ivereigh's The Great Reformer, Shriver's conversations with many of the people who knew Jorge Bergoglio in Argentina and were willing to relate personal details about their relationship with him set this book apart. [See Prepub Alert, 5/23/16.]--Augustine J. Curley, Newark Abbey, NJ

        Copyright 2016 Library Journal, LLC Used with permission.

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        June 15, 2016

        Shriver, head of Save the Children's U.S. Programs and author of A Good Man: Rediscovering My Father, Sargent Shriver, wanted to discover what Jorge Mario Bergoglio was like before he became Pope Francis. To that end, he spoke to priests, rabbis, and ordinary folks who knew him well, including the high school students he taught and the Jesuit novice director who thought he should leave the Novitiate.

        Copyright 2016 Library Journal, LLC Used with permission.

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        October 1, 2016

        Having written a book reflecting on the role of Catholicism in the life of his father, Sargent Shriver, the author (A Good Man) was asked to write a similar book on Pope Francis. Like many others, Shriver reexamined his relationship to the church after the election of a new Pope who seemed so unlike those before him. Shriver traveled to Argentina to interview many people who knew Francis intimately, both friends and those who had issues with him, as well as several of the poor with whom Father Bergoglio would interact even after he became a cardinal. At once a portrait of the young Bergoglio, the milieu out of which he came, and of a sometimes disaffected Catholic (Shriver himself) who has come to a new appreciation of the church, this book will especially appeal to those who want to learn more about Francis's origins. VERDICT While many good books have been written about Pope Francis, most notably Austin Ivereigh's The Great Reformer, Shriver's conversations with many of the people who knew Jorge Bergoglio in Argentina and were willing to relate personal details about their relationship with him set this book apart. [See Prepub Alert, 5/23/16.]--Augustine J. Curley, Newark Abbey, NJ

        Copyright 2016 Library Journal, LLC Used with permission.

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Early on the evening of March 13, 2013, the newly elected Pope Francis stepped out onto the balcony of St. Peter’s Basilica and did something remarkable: Before he imparted his blessing to the crowd, he asked the crowd to bless him, then bowed low to receive this grace. In the days that followed, Mark K. Shriver—along with the rest of the world—was astonished to see a pope who paid his own hotel bill, eschewed limousines, and made his home in a suite of austere rooms in a Vatican guesthouse rather than the grand papal apartment in the Apostolic Palace. By setting an example of humility and accessibility, Francis breathed new life into the Catholic Church, attracting the admiration of Catholics and non-Catholics alike.
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