Contents
Foreword, Archbishop Christophe Pierre, Apostolic Nuncio
1. Introduction, Pope Francis in America: A South-North Encounter | Peter J. Casarella
2. The Pope and the Patria Grande: How Francis Promotes Latin America’s Continental Destiny | Austen Ivereigh
3. The Role of the Poor and the Suffering in the Christology and Theodicy of Pope Francis: The Theology of the Aparecida Document | Sixto García
4. “We Finally Have a Pope on the Side of the Poor” | Ana María Bidegain
5. Pope Francis and Popular Movements in Latin America | Paulo Fernando Carneiro de Andrade
6. Whisper to Those in Dispair: “The Best Wine is Yet to Come”—Memory, Hope and Resistance | Luis Herrera Rodríguez, SJ
7. The Presence of God in the Experience of the Amerindian Peoples: A Reading of Pope Francis’s Speeches in America | Roberto Tomichá Charupá
8. The First American Pope | William L. Portier
9. A Century of Mercy: The Catholic Church and Immigration Along the U.S.-Mexico Border | Julia G. Young
10. Pope Francis and Latino Communities in the U.S.: Spiritual Empowerment in the Americas through Language | Luis Ricardo Fraga, Kiku Huckle
11. Clericalism: A Neuralgic Point for Church Reform | Allan Figueroa Deck
12. Francis and the Witnesses of America | Maria Clara Lucchetti Bingemer
Works of Pope Francis
Works Cited
Contributor Biographies
Index