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A Spiritual Revolution in 140 Characters
HarperOne
September 2015
On Sale: September 8, 2015
261 pages
ISBN: 0062434993
EAN: 9780062434999
Kindle: B00WFW8UIA
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Non-Fiction Religion
Boston Globe journalist and Catholic commentator
Michael O’Loughlin opens a wonderful window into the heart
and revolutionary mission of Pope Francis by examining his
extensive and revelatory use of social media—published to
coincide with the pontiff’s visit to the United States in
September 2015. Michael O’Loughlin uses Pope Francis’s
almost daily “tweets” to his 21 million followers to explain
why this pope has captured the world’s imagination and to
explore his strategy and vision for the Catholic Church.
Grouped by the Pope’s most pressing concerns—forgiveness,
mercy, injustice, poverty, war, joy, the environment, and
more—The Tweetable Pope uses Francis’ pithy
140-character (or fewer) missives as a prism to view the
biographical, historical, and spiritual context of his
messages and how each is part of a larger
vision. O’Loughlin contends that these seemingly
simple communications provide a direct line to the Pope’s
heart, illuminating a peaceful, loving, and courageous
visionary committed to restoring the church to the original
Christian tenets of its founder, Jesus Christ—love, mercy,
grace, and compassion—and reshaping it as a force for change
to help the most needy. A thoughtful and enlightening
examination of how the pope is using this exciting and
fascinating new medium to communicate directly to his flock,
The Tweetable Pope is an inspiring and moving
testimony of how we, too, can be more centered on what
matters most to God.
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