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THE NAME OF GOD IS MERCY. A conversation with NEW Andrea Tornielli

The first book by Pope Francis. “Mercy is God’s defining feature. It is his name. There are no situations we can’t get out of; we are not condemned to sink in the quicksand.”

As down-to-earth and straightforward as ever, Pope Francis speaks to every man and woman in the world, setting up an intimate and personal dialogue with them. The focus is mercy – a theme he holds dearer than any and the kingpin of his personal story and his papacy. Every page shimmers with the Pope’s urge to reach out to all the souls within and without the Church. Throughout his conversation with Vatican scholar Andrea Tornielli, Pope Francis recalls childhood memories and touching episodes from his time as a pastor, and uses them to explain the reasons behind the Extraordinary Jubilee of Mercy he wanted so strongly. Despite the ethical and theological issues, he RIGHTS SOLD TO 28 stresses how the Church cannot close the door on anyone; instead, its COUNTRIES AND duty is to encourage people to take responsibility for their actions and PUBLISHED IN OVER distance themselves from any harm they have done. 93 TERRITORIES Pope Francis also tackles the relationship between mercy, justice and corruption. And he reminds the Christians that believe they are among the good that “Even the Pope is a man who needs God’s mercy.”

JORGE MARIO BERGOGLIO (Buenos Aires, 1936,) since 13 March 2013, he is the 266th pope of the Catholic Church. Ordained cardinal in 2001, he led the Episcopal Conference of Argentina from 2005 to 2011. Even when he became a cardinal, he never stopped frequenting the villas miserias (shanty towns) of Buenos Aires or welcoming and listening to everyone. His first year of papacy shook the Church and laid the foundation for a global reform. His books have become international bestsellers.

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GOD LAUGHS. HUMOUR AND JOY IN THE FAITH

Humour is wisdom. Smiling is the sign of an open heart. Pope Francis tells that the light of humour makes you an authentic human person mirroring in the smiling face of God.

«My son, according to your means, do not deprive yourself of a happy day». This phrase from the Book of Sirach is one of the Bible quotations best loved by Pope Francis, who in this reflection on the smiling face of God, never tires of repeating the invitation to «always be joyous», even in the face of difficulty, suffering, criticism and ag- gressiveness; thus giving to yourself the lightness and self-irony that make an individual – man or woman – an authentic, fully human person. Bergoglio warns against the «funereal face illness» like that of grim and surly people, who think that to be taken seriously they must plaster their faces with sadness and severity and treat others – especially those they hold inferior – with rigidity, harness and arrogance. Irony is wisdom. The believer, who should know better than others the surrender to God’s design, intuits this, but so does the non-believer who encounters on his way the consolation of love.

«THE FAITH IS CELEBRATION THE SAINTS ARE AMONG US... AND THEY ARE SMILING AT US.» POPE FRANCIS

JORGE MARIO BERGOGLIO was born in Buenos Aires in 1936, and since 13 March 2013, he is the 266th pope of the Catholic Church. Ordained cardinal in 2001, he led the Episcopal Conference of Argentina from 2005 to 2011. Even when he became a cardinal, he never stopped frequenting the villas miserias (shanty towns) of Buenos Aires or welcoming and listening to everyone. His first year of papacy, which received approval even among lay people, shook the Church and laid the foundation for a global reform. His books have become international bestsellers. Piemme published an anthology of his words called The gospel of the smile and in 2014 another bestselling anthology (over 30.000 copies sold) addressed to a more laical audience, called Love is contagious, about love and passion in life.

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MERRY CHRISTMAS. The path to celebration

Pope Francis tells about the most authentic sense of Christmas. The most affectionate greeting from the most communicative pope in the history of the Catholic Church. A book for celebrating Christmas and to understand the universal meaning of the Mercy Jubilee open- ing on 8 December 2015.

Waiting, birth, family, life, gift, pardon…but also cradle, stars, shepherds, the Three Wise Men. These are words in Pope Francis’s Merry Christmas message. In this Holy Year of Mercy, he invites everyone to stop before the Child of Bethlehem and let his or her heart be moved. Bergoglio speaks of tenderness and God’s capacity to penetrate the human soul through the light touch of love. The planet is once again devastated by wars, misery and persecution. Francis takes to heart the wounds of human- ity and does not disdain to exhort men and women of goodwill who hope for a better world to let themselves be caressed by God because “God’s caresses give us peace, strength and the desire to change”.

“You are Christmas when you decide to be born again every day and let God enter your soul. You are the Christmas tree when you vigorously resist the tem- pests and hardships of life. You are the Christmas bell when you call others to gather and try to unite them. You are also the light of Christmas when you illuminate the lives of others with goodness, patience joy and generosity. You are the Christmas gifts when you are a true friend and brother to all mankind. You are the Christmas greetings when you forgive and make peace even when you are suffering. You are Christmas dinner when you satiate the poor man next to you with bread and hope. You are Christmas night when you receive the Saviour humbly and consciously in the silence of the night, without noises or great celebrations. You are a smile of confidence and tenderness in the inner peace of an eternal Christmas that establishes the kingdom within you. A Merry Christmas to all those who resemble Christmas.”

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THE GOSPEL OF MARY

A poignant meditation on the character of the Virgin Mary and the influence she had on Pope Francis’ experience.

One cannot thoroughly understand the tenderness that characterizes the teachings of Pope Francis unless one catches the importance of the Mother of God in his experience of faith. There’s a particular title our Pope favours to venerate and invoke her: Mary Who Undoes the Knots.

“Mary overcomes all obstacles and relieves all pains”

This special Marian devotion, little known in Europe but widely ex- tended in South America, is what Pope Francis practices and has promoted since his ascension to the papacy.

“Mary has lived her faith in the simplicity of many things to do, of being busy, of daily worries just as all women and mums, like providing food and clothes, taking care of the house and kids.. It’s right in this existence as ‘normal’ human being that the Madonna built her special and divine bond with God and His Child.”

This voyage where we discover the Marian spirituality of Pope Francis is a collection of his most touching thoughts and significant teachings.

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LOVE IS CONTAGIOUS. The gospel of justice

There’s a common thread in Bergoglio’s papacy: the topic of justice, which to Pope Francis’ view is just another word to say love.

“Love is contagious” Bergoglio writes. “Just as love tends to spread, so does injustice”.

To Pope Francis, each of our actions has a consequence; even the smallest trace of injustice and wickedness hidden in our society is a potential threaten for our world. The Pope’s continual calls for respect for human dignity and the civil rights are the leitmotiv of his teachings, summarized in this book.

“How perilous is that tired rituality that leads us to lose the marvel and enthusiasm for living the gospel of brotherhood and justice!”

There is also another justice, which Bergoglio never tires of referring POPE FRANCIS, to: if we live according to the law of “and eye for an eye, a tooth for a WHO HAS MADE tooth”, we shall never be free of the spiral of evil. Only the justice of HUMAN DIGNITY Jesus – who pardoned his assassins from the Cross – can redeem us, AND CIVIL RIGHTS imposing a judgment of quality on our earthly life towards the mysteri- THE CORNERSTONES ous horizon of (Divine) Mercy. OF HIS PAPACY, TALKS ABOUT In this gospel of love and justice, the reader will discover an HIS GOSPEL OF itinerary from which to take inspiration, and to guide his choices and LOVE AND JUSTICE. actions in his day to day life. 30.000 A poignant meditation on the passion for good and for COPIES SOLD justice. An anthology of Pope Francis’ words.

JORGE MARIO BERGOGLIO was born in Buenos Aires in 1936, and since 13 March 2013, he is the 266th pope of the Catholic Church. Ordained cardinal in 2001, he led the Episcopal Conference of Argen- tina from 2005 to 2011. Even when he became a cardinal, he never stopped frequenting the villas miserias (shanty towns) of Buenos Ai- res or welcoming and listening to everyone. His first year of papacy, which received approval even among lay people, shook the Church and laid the foundation for a global reform. His books have become international bestsellers. In 2013, Piemme published an anthology of his words called The gospel of the smile.

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PAGES: 238 – TRADE PRICE: € 14,90 – PUBL. DATE: SEPTEMBER 2014 6 > AA.VV EDITED BY NATALE BENAZZI essay THE HOLY YEAR WITH POPE FRANCIS. Guide to the Jubilee of Mercy

A spiritual handbook for experiencing the Jubilee as a pilgrim.

The book proposes pieces and prayers for personal meditation by Pope Francis. It is a guide to reviewing one’s life with suggestions for confession, the prayer to obtain Indulgence, a gallery of the lives of saints dear to Bergoglio that can be an inspiration for “a model of mercy incarnate” and a reflection on pilgrimage as an “existential way”. The guide has two ample appendices: one historical about the biblical origin of the Jubilee and its significance and rites; and one practical to aid in experiencing the Jubilee pilgrimage in Rome. It has holy places to visit, where to stop for prayer and meditation, where to receive the sacrament of Reconciliation and obtain Indulgence, a de- scription of Christian Rome with its catacombs, the tombs of martyred saints, sites of the persecutions and the sanctuaries.

This is the perfect guide to follow Pope francis’s wishes The book contains the about the extraordinary Jubilee of mercy: to celebrate it not complete text of the “Bull only in Rome but in all local churches around the world. of the announcement of the Jubilee of Mercy.”

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THE LITTLE FLOWERS OF POPE FRANCIS

From the Vatican expert and friend of Jorge Mario Bergoglio, the one who foresaw his election, recognized by the international press as the non plus ultra of Vatican experts great and small stories about the Pope who has won everyone’s heart. From the very first moments after his appearance on the balcony in St. Peter’s Square, with his simple and immediate way of being, he entered the hearts of millions of the faithful. After the first months of his papacy, that feeling gives no sign of lessening, rather it has grown and includes the sympathies of many non-believers. Andrea Tornielli presents in this book a collection of anecdotes, episodes, great and small stories of the pope’s daily life. Most of these events and curiosities have never been published: from the letter sent to the woman prisoner who prepares the hosts for the morning mass to the phone call to the sisters of Buenos Aires, a few days after the election, so they would remember to feed his little birds. The Pope, shepherd of souls, who does not cease to be a “There is a special gentle- priest, able to speak with chiefs of state and to great religious leaders, and ness of which Pope Francis a moment later to phone a boy who wrote to him and who needs comfort. is a master. It is not naivety, The Pope who shuns any kind of court splendor and has chosen to live in but strength.” the spartan Santa Maria residence. The Pope who moves us with his ca- ANDREA TORNIELLI pacity to be close to those who suffer. The Pope who wishes to reform the Curia and the Church, starting by giving the example. An extraordinary voyage full of curious and enjoyable things to bring one closer to Francis, “One cannot construct the person and his message. bridges among men, forgetting God. But the contrary is “Tornielli is one of the best, if not the best, Vatican reporter also true: one cannot have out there. Period. He is the best-sourced, most accurate and true bonds with God, ignor- one of the most knowledgeable reporters among the unique ing others.” band of “Vaticanisti” who travel with the pope, digest theo- POPE FRANCIS logical treateses as bedtime reading and count cardinals and monsignors as friends.” NICOLE WINFIELD, Associated Press

ANDREA TORNIELLI, correspondent and Vatican expert for the daily “La Stampa”, he collaborates with various Italian and international magazines. He is supervisor of the very followed website “Vatican Insider” (www.vati- caninsider.it) and has written numerous books, among which Pius XII, the Pope of the Jews; The Pope Who Saved the Jews; Benedict XVI, The Guardian of the Faith; The Secret of Padre Pio and Karol Wojtyla; Attack on Ratzinger, The Prophet of the Dialogue and Francis.Together (2013).

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Jorge Mario Bergoglio FRANCIS. TOGETHER LIFE, IDEAS, WORDS OF THE POPE WHO WILL CHANGE THE CHURCH

“Francis, rebuild my Church!” That is how St. Francis of Assisi heard the call of Christ. It is also how Jorge Mario Bergoglio, at the age of 76, seems to have accepted his election to the papacy with the choice of a name that no other pope has ever chosen. Who is Pope Francis, elected in one of the shortest conclaves in history? Who is the man chosen to be the first pope from the Americas and the first Jesuit pope? How does he see the world and his ministry? In short, what is the mind and heart of this pope of a new world. In the words, the ideas, and the personal recollections of Pope Francis - including material up to the final hours before his election - the most highly regarded Vatican observer on the international scene reveals the personality of this man of God, gentle and humble. It is the story of the humble pastor of one of the world’s largest archdioceses; a cardinal who takes the bus, talks with common folk, “Tornielli is one of the best, and lives simply. It is the story of why the cardinal electors of the if not the best, Vatican re- Catholic Church set aside political and diplomatic calculations to elect porter out there. If anyone a pope to lead the renewal and purification of the worldwide Church needed evidence, take his of our time. reporting of the conclave This complete biography offers the keys to understanding the that elected Pope Fran- man who was a surprise choice, even a kind of revolutionary choice, cis: his reports about the for pope. behind-the-scenes negotia- tions before the conclave were cited by cardinals as the reason for imposing a media blackout on the pro- ANDREA TORNIELLI is a Vatican correspondent for the highly regarded cess. It didn’t work.” Italian newspaper La Stampa who has collaborated with numerous Nicole Winfield Italian and international publications. His numerous books include ASSOCIATED PRESS Pius XII, the Pope of the Jews; The Choice of Martini; Pope Luciani: The Smile of a Saint; The Pope Who Saved the Jews; Benedict XVI, The Guardian of the Faith; The Secret of Padre Pio and Karol Wojtyla; TRANSLATED and The Attack on Ratzinger (with Paolo Rodari) and The Prophet of IN 16 LANGUAGES the Dialogue.

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THE THIRTEEN JESUSES. A Contemporary Identikit NEW From Hegel To Pope Francis

Renowned psychiatrist Vittorino Andreoli focuses on the figure that, more than any other, influenced his work as a scholar of the mind and as a writer. He explains why, even today, secular people cannot say they are not Christian.

That Jesus of Nazareth actually existed is accepted as a fact by most historians and bible scholars; and yet, strong scepticism has taken root in recent years. The sceptics range from mystics, who believe the figure of Jesus belongs to myth, to conspiracy theorists; from those who saw him as an enlightened prophet to those who believe he is an invention of the old Church to control the masses. So did Jesus really exist? And most importantly, who was he and what does he represent historically? What does he stand for today in the age of technology and modernity? A passionate scholar and psychiatrist, Vittorino Andreoli focuses once again on the figure that has always fascinated him the most and tackles some open issues through the works of thirteen great writers, thinkers and theologians of the 20th century – from Hegel’s moral Jesus to Pope Francis’ Jesus of mercy and the view given by Ratzinger. Page after page, Andreoli’s work keeps the reader with bated breath as he reconstructs a story we sometimes wrongly believe we already know. He brilliantly sums up decades of historical and theological debates of modernity and the early 21st century, leaving some questions unanswered while at the same time providing new and un- expected touchstones we can move from.

Vittorino Andreoli, born in Verona in 1940, is a world-renowned psychiatrist, editorialist and writer. His many best-sellers have been translated into several languages and include Il lato oscuro (2002), Lettere a un adolescente (2004), Lettere alla tua famiglia (2005), Lettere a un insegnante (2006), Capire il dolore (2007), L’uomo di vetro (2008), Il denaro in testa (2011) and I segreti della mente (2013). His publications with Piemme are the 2009 bestselling Preti. Viaggio fra gli uomini del sacro, Preti di carta. Storie di santi ed eretici, asceti e libertini, esorcisti e guaritori and Il Gesù di tutti.

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SISTER DEATH. The dignity of living and dying NEW

This pamphlet will have people talking. One of the most authoritative exponents of the Roman Catholic hierarchy, the spiritual assistant of the community of Sant’Egidio and the President of the Pontifical Council for the Family, Paglia tackles one of the most controversial issues of bioethics – an issue that still sparks bitter debates in Italy and other Western countries.

Is euthanasia really true to its name (literally good death)? Where does the dignity of life and death begin and end? More and more countries in Europe and all around the world have passed laws on euthanasia and assisted suicide. People have the right to live but cannot be forced to live. If someone wants to live until their life has run its course, fine. But euthanasia advocates say that society has no right to stop someone from dying if the person freely chooses to do so. Indeed, attempted suicide is not a crime in Italy. And if suicide is not a crime, why should euthanasia be?

VINCENZO PAGLIA Born in Boville Ernica near Frosinone in 1945, Vin- cenzo Paglia graduated in theology, philosophy and pedagogy. A former bishop at Terni, he is currently the President of the Catholic Bibli- cal Federation. He was recently nominated President of the Pontifical Council for the Family and promoted to archbishop. Also an ecclesiastical and spiritual counsellor at the community of Sant’Egidio, he is an active member of the “Uomini e Religioni” as- sociation. His efforts for peace have earned him the Unesco Gandhi Award and the Mother Theresa Award. A journalist and writer, he pens books dealing with religion and society. Piemme has published his books In cerca dell’anima. Dialogo su un’Italia che ha smarrito se stessa and Cercando Gesù. In un mondo sempre più confuso siamo ancora capaci di amore (both with Franco Scaglia) as well as Lettera a un amico che non crede.

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THE SUN WITHIN. Inner life NEW A stunning unpublished text from 1975 found among Carlo Maria Martini’s papers, this book is a ten-lesson treatise on the beauty of spiritual life.

The former rector of the Pontifical Biblical Institute in Rome and future cardinal of Milan held a course of spiritual exercises on the life of the soul. This unpublished work found by the Jesuits of the Martini Foun- dation shows us not just the man and the pastor that would be greatly respected by the ecclesiastical and secular world during his time in Milan but also the investigator of the very depths of the human soul. This book is a sort of inner life manual in ten steps: 1. Listen to the soul’s real questions; 2. Feel the radical question of death; 3. Inves- tigate God’s silence; 4. Come to terms with the obtrusiveness of the I; 5. Abandon every form of naivety (good intentions are not enough to change the world); 6. Choose the path of good, 7. Face the Cross without any masochism; 8. Find the signs of Providence; 9. Move from recognition to thankfulness; 10. Strive to fill the Church and the world with all that is beautiful, good and right.

CARLO MARIA MARTINI, born in Turin on February 15th 1927, died after a long illness in Gallarate (Varese) on August 31st 2012. He was the archbishop and then the cardinal of the Milan diocese from 1980 to 2002. An internationally renowned Jesuit and bible scholar, he was the rector of the Pontifical Biblical Institute in Rome and of the Pon- tifical Gregorian University. During his time in Milan he promoted the “School of the Word” to help youths become acquainted with Scrip- ture following the lectio divina method, as well as the “Post of the non- believers”, where secular scholars and men of faith would exchange views on the hottest topics of religion and current affairs. His books have been translated into all the main languages. His many publications with Piemme include Le tenebre e la luce (2007), Le ali della lib- ertà (2009), Qualcosa in cui credere (2010), La forza della debolezza (2012) and Per una nuova primavera (2013).

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POPE FRANCIS’S ENEMIES. WHO WANTS TO DISCREDIT HIM. WHO WANTS TO SILENCE HIM. WHO WANTS HIM DEAD.

Who are the enemies of Bergoglio’s revolution? The current plots, intrigues and conspiracies to dethrone the pope who wants to change the physiognomy of Catholicism and throw stones of scandal against the strong powers of the globalized world.

Bergoglio knows. Sometimes he has talked about it in private. At others, he has implied it in public. Inside and outside the Catholic Church, there are obstacles, resistance, and conflicts. Serpents nest in curial milieus as well as in the international centres of power. There are pages of reports and entire books written about the internal op- ponents, but it is the external trench on the perimeter of the Vatican that heralds unpredictable perils. Francesco has never denied this. Just before his voyage to Latin America, he openly said: «So many powers, over the course of history, have tried and are still trying to annihilate the Church!» In a risky and unprecedented journalistic investigation, Nello Scavo sought the Pope’s enemies that «come from the end of the world». He met some in person, even though they were unaware. In some sacristies, along the refugee routes, in a fiscal paradise or in the inferno of a shantytown. Many are still hiding. They wear the bishop’s mitre or the mujahedeen’s typical headpiece, the fashionable ties of certain aggressive bankers or the linen shirts of rapacious oilmen. And then there are those who wear the muddy boots of arms and human traffickers. They are mercenaries of malicious gossip and insinuations and heads of state that do not practice what they preach. «If I undergo an assassination attempt,» the Pope confided when he was going to the Philippines, «I ask only for the mercy of not being hurt. I am not brave. I am afraid of physical pain, but I have the defect of having a good dose of recklessness.»

NELLO SCAVO, is a journalist for the newspaper, Avvenire. He is covers international and judiciary news. He has investigated organized crime and global terrorism. He has sent in articles from some of the world’s “hot” zones: ex-Yugoslavia, Southeast Asia, the countries of the ex- USSR, Latin America and the Horn of Africa. I SOMMERSI E I SALVATI 2014 RIGHTS SOLD IN FRANCE (BAYARD), PORTUGAL (ESFERA DOS LIVROS), SLOVAK (FORTUNA)

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THIS ECONOMY IS A KILLER

Daily financial newspapers, religious groups affiliated with the “Tea Party” and non-minority sections of the Catholic world accuse Bergoglio of anti-capitalistic positions. What idea of the economy is Pope Francis thinking about as he is preparing an encyclical on “The poor and the creation”?

This pope “talks too much about the poor”. This South-American pope doesn’t understand much about the economy. This pope “come from the end of the world” demonizes capitalism. Only a few phrases of the pope “against the killer economy and the dictatorship of finance” were enough to brand him as the “Marxist pope”. That the columnists of financial dailies make certain comments or the exponents of movements like the American “Tea Party” is not surprising. Instead, what is much more surprising is that these comments were shared in many sectors of the Catholic world, who are Pope Francis, forgetting the theological significance of loving for poor attested to by the dictatorship Jesus of Nazareth. of finance, the poor and By doing so, the same sectors of a Catholic world end up dismiss- the Creation. ing a tradition of the Fathers of the Church and the social teachings With an exclusive that, in years past, was certainly much more explosive and alternative interview to POPE in dealing with economic themes in respect to the weak voice of a BERGOGLIO on his certain contemporary Catholicism. thoughts about the economy

ANDREA TORNIELLI, Vatican scholar, journalist for the daily “La Stampa” and 20.000 coordinator of the website “Vatican Insider”, collaborates with various Italian COPIES SOLD and international publications. He has written numerous books translated in 17 countries, among which Piemme published Benedict XVI. Guardian of the faith, Carlo Maria Martini. The prophet of dialogue, Francis. Together (the biography of the new Pope published in over 20 countries), and The little flowers of Pope Francis.

GIACOMO GALEAZZI, a Vatican expert for the “La Stampa” and one of the authors of the popular Web column, “Vatican Insider”. He wrote The Church is not silent, with Domenico Mogavero. Piemme published his and Ferruccio Pinotti’s book Vatican Mason (2013).

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