The Name of God is Mercy

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The Name of God is Mercy, Pope Francis' exploration on the universal theme of mercy, is a spiritual inspiration to both followers of Christianity and non-Christians around the world, read aloud by award-winning narrator Arthur Morey and theologian Fred Sanders.

Drawing on his own experience as a priest and shepherd, Pope Francis discusses mercy, a subject of central importance in his religious teaching and testimony, and in addition sums up other ideas - reconciliation, the closeness of God - that comprise the heart of his papacy. Written in conversation with Vatican expert and La Stampa journalist Andrea Tornielli, The Name of God is Mercy is directed at everyone, inside or outside of the Catholic Church, seeking meaning in life, a road to peace and reconciliation, or the healing of physical or spiritual wounds.

Critics Review

  • Pope Francis’s chatty tone, his repeated references to episodes in his own life and his clear, down-to-earth language, so rarely found in papal pronouncements, make The Name of God Is Mercy a pleasure to read.

    The Guardian

  • Francis offers the most vivid glimpse yet of this thinking on the struggles facing the Church in the 21st Century

    Sunday Telegraph

  • This gift for teaching – along with his inclusive vision of the world, and his warm, embracing manner – have been hallmarks of the pope’s whirlwind tenure thus far in the Vatican, and they also inform his new book, The Name of God Is Mercy

    The New York Times

  • What makes his book most moving is the way in which this man, without disrespecting his own privacy or offering false bromides of modesty (what Douthat derides as “ostentatious humility”), opens the sacred space of his conscience to explain how he came to center his ministry, and now his papacy, around mercy.

    The New Yorker

  • As he has done throughout his papacy, Pope Francis shows in this book a compelling way to present God’s love anew to a skeptical world without denying the ancient teachings of faith

    TIME

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