Since becoming the new pontiff in March 2013, Pope Francis has continually made headlines with his liberal-sounding statements about homosexuality, abortion, and papal infallibility, among other topics. How do these statements impact the future of Catholicism, if at all, and what do they mean for both Catholics and Protestants alike? In this one-session study, "Pope Francis," readers will learn who Pope Francis is and what he has done during his first year in office.
Marianne Blickenstaff has taught biblical studies and languages at Belmont University and Vanderbilt University in Nashville and at Purdue University in West Lafayette, Indiana. She was project manager for the five- volume New Interpreter's Dictionary of the Bible (Abingdon) and served as an acquisition editor for Westminster John Knox Press. She is the writer of many Bible studies and a book, While the Bridegroom Is with Them (T&T Clark, 2005), about the radical nature of Jesus's call to discipleship.