An Inside account of the conclave that changed History
- A Theology of Dao
- A Church of the Poor
- Catholic Social Thought
- Do Not Stifle the Spirit
- The Joy of Religious Pluralism
- The Future of Interreligious Dialogue
- The Problem of Wealth
- Essential Catholic Social Thought
- The Unmoored God
- The Holy Spirit and an Evolving Church
- Creation and the Cross
- A Poor and Merciful Church
- The Catholic Ethicist in the Local Church
- Choosing Peace
- American Catholicism in the 21st Century
- Loneliness
- Virtue and Theological Ethics
- Just Water
- Experiments in Buddhist-Christian Encounter
- Christian Ministry in the Divine Milieu
- Church as Dynamic life-style
- The Election of Pope Francis
- Introduction to Catholic Theological ethics
- You Say You Want A Revolution
- Deep Incarnation
- Abuse and Cover-up
- New Paths for Interreligious Theology
- Christian Ethics
- Faith and Evolution
- Building Bridges in Sarajevo
- The Liminal Papacy of Pope Francis
- Marcus Mescher: The Ethics of Encounter
- Doing Theology in an Evolutionary Way
- Fratelli Tutti
- Christian Social Ethics
- Street Homelessness and Catholic Theological Ethics
- Deep Calls to Deep
- Pope Francis
- Breathed into wholeness
- Religious Life for our World
- La Via della Bellezza
- conscience and Catholic education
- Enacting Catholic Social Tradition
- The Authority of the Saints
- The Hidden "God"
- Globalizing Theological Education for an Increasingly Globalized Age
- Thoughts and Dreams of an Old Theologian
The selection of Cardinal Jorge Bergoglio of Buenos Aires in the papal election of 2013 made history in several ways: he was the first Latin American, the first Jesuit, and the first pope to choose the name Francis. But these “firsts” were only the beginning of a consequential papacy of historic proportions. Entering the conclave of 2013, Cardinal Bergoglio appeared on few lists of likely candidates. How then did his election come about?
Gerard O’Connell and his wife—herself a Vatican correspondent from Argentina—had befriended Bergoglio years before and were among the very few journalists who predicted his election. Now, relying on extensive inside sources, he reveals the basis for that confidence and shares with us what actually happened inside the secret conclave.
