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A down-to-earth and deeply intimate portrait of Pope Francis and his beliefs, based on interviews with the men and women who realized him simply as Jorge Mario Bergoglio. Early on the evening of March 13, 2013, the recently elected Pope Francis stepped out onto the balcony of St. Peter's Basilica and performed something remarkable: before he imparted his blessing to the group, he asked the group to bless him, then bowed low to get this elegance. In the times that followed, Make K. Shriver - combined with the remaining world - was astonished to see a pope who paid his own hotel expenses, 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 preparing an example of humility and convenience, Francis breathed new life in to the Catholic Church, getting the admiration of Catholics and non-Catholics as well. In Pilgrimage, Shriver retraces Francis' personal trip, revealing the roots of his open, unpretentious style and describing how it revitalized Shriver's own beliefs and restored his determination to the chapel. To greatly help us know how Jorge Mario Bergoglio became Pope Francis, Shriver journeys to Bergoglio's local Argentina to meet with the people who realized him as a kid, as a young Jesuit priest, as a reformist bishop. Shriver goes to the confessional where Bergoglio first felt called to a faith-based life and calls for us to the humble parish where the future pontiff's pastoral profession initiated: in a chapel created from a converted veggie shed in an area just outside metropolis of Buenos Aires. In these impoverished surroundings, Bergoglio answered Christ's call to feed the eager, clothe the nude, and shelter the homeless, following the example establish by his papal namesake, St. Francis of Assisi. On this deeply reported yet highly personal book, Make K. Shriver explores how Francis' determination has struck a chord in the hearts of millions who long to make beliefs, love, humility, and mercy part of their lives as they go out in to the world to provide and study from the most marginalized.
