The Jesuit Disruptor: A Personal Portrait of Pope Francis

This personal portrait of Pope Francis is less a biography and more of a sensitive and inspiring meditation on Francis as a leader, thinker, and servant of God. Award-winning Higgins (president emeritus, St. Jerome’s Univ.; coauthor, Power and Peril: The Catholic Church at the Crossroads) has written about Vatican affairs for decades. In this volume, he contemplates the life and the theological style of Jorge Bergoglio (Pope Francis), as well as the history and workings of the Vatican. He writes with such insight and authority that his book comes across with something like a literary version of papal infallibility. Readers interested in pondering not only the life of this humble and distinctive man but also the meaning and consequences of such a life will find themselves absorbed by the thoughtfulness and genuine curiosity on display.