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  • 3 weeks ago | catholicoutlook.org | Austen Ivereigh

    Four days after Pope Francis was taken to the hospital to be treated for acute bronchitis and fever, I flew to Rome for an unruly mix of motives, professional and personal. In my gut I felt the prospect of his passing, and as his biographer, I did not want to miss this final chapter. I wanted to be near him, or at least near to the flow of information about him, as one might move to be near an ailing elderly relative who has played a major role in one’s life.

  • 4 weeks ago | commonwealmagazine.org | Austen Ivereigh

    Four days after Pope Francis was taken to the hospital to be treated for acute bronchitis and fever, I flew to Rome for an unruly mix of motives, professional and personal. In my gut I felt the prospect of his passing, and as his biographer, I did not want to miss this final chapter. I wanted to be near him, or at least near to the flow of information about him, as one might move to be near an ailing elderly relative who has played a major role in one’s life.

  • Jan 14, 2025 | thetablet.co.uk | Austen Ivereigh

    Because I had no contact with Pope Francis while researching and writing my biography The Great Reformer, which came out ten years ago, I was both eager for and dreading Hope: The Autobiography. This would be his own account, an opportunity to set the record straight on all those events we biographers had struggled to interpret. What if his account was very different from mine?

  • Nov 14, 2024 | furet.com | Austen Ivereigh

    S'appuyant notamment sur de nombreuses conférences - jamais été traduites en français - données par Mgr Bergoglio, l'auteur a rédigé une véritable...

  • Nov 1, 2024 | thetablet.co.uk | Austen Ivereigh

    After three years of listening and discernment, the Synod on Synodality has ended with a Final Document and the promise of processes and structures that will transform how the Church listens, discerns and decides. As we neared the halfway mark of the assembly, at the start of Module Three, the sheer intensity of the first 10 days began to take its toll.

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Austen Ivereigh
Austen Ivereigh @austeni
23 Apr 25

Podcast: Conferência de Austen Ivereigh sobre o legado do Papa Francisco @opontosj https://t.co/y2MQXFxrSq

Austen Ivereigh
Austen Ivereigh @austeni
23 Apr 25

Square filling in advance of the coffin of Francis being brought from the Santa Marta into the square and thence into the Basilica for the public wake. I will be commenting from here for @BBC news. https://t.co/wBr2e6iiN6

Austen Ivereigh
Austen Ivereigh @austeni
22 Apr 25

RT @ctrlamb: Even in death, Pope Francis has continued to reform the papacy asking that he be buried in a simple tomb and arranging to cove…