Ebook: Francis, Pope of Good Promise

First engagement -- The road to conversion. Departure ; The rise and resignation of Benedict XVI ; Habemus Papam Francisco ; Immigrant family ; Vocation ; Jesuit roots ; Peron's return ; The dirty war ; Bishop of Buenos Aires ; Political broker ; Battle lines -- Among the believers. Power and the shanty town ; First stop, Brazil ; God's banker ; The long shadow of abuse ; Women and synods ; A pope for all seasons -- Pilgrim at large.;From the moment Pope Francis stepped on to the balcony of St Peter's, people around the globe sensed that not only the Catholic Church, but the world at large, could be entering a new spiritual, political and social age. The pomp and circumstance that had characterised the Vatican for as long as most people could remember evaporated as Francis asked the throng gathered in the square to "pray over" him before he gave his first blessing.