The Jesuit Disruptor

Literary / Arts

The Jesuit Disruptor

Michael. W. Higgins

Volume 39  Issue 4, 5 & 6 | Posted: July 15, 2024

Pub Date: September 10, 2024, House of Anansi Press. For more information: Melissa Shirley, Publicity Director, milissa@anansi.ca
344 pp
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“Higgins gives a thorough and erudite treatment of the Jesuit pope’s record … contextualizing Francis with thinkers who have inspired him … and diagnosing with remarkable precision and nuance Francis’s modus operandi.”
– Colleen Dulle, associate editor of America Magazine and host of the podcast Inside the Vatican.

“Michael W. Higgins has given us a picture of the pope that illuminates the complexity of his struggle for a church that is both more merciful and more adult. Anyone who reads this lively account will come away with a clearer understanding of the immensity and importance of the task that the Jesuit disruptor was called to accomplish.”
– Paul Lakeland, Meritus Professor of Catholic Studies, Fairfield University.

“A clarion call for a fresh way of seeing the Gospel, urgently reminding us both of the critical need to respond to God’s Mercy and that the church is not a refuge for the saved, but a field hospital for the wounded – a timely message for our confused, distempered times.”
– James Clarke, retired Ontario Superior Court judge and poet.

“Michael W. Higgins manages to carve out some fresh space in a crowded field. What a joy to read such punchy and elegant storytelling.”
– Brendan Walsh, Editor, The Tablet.

“Higgins reveals to us a pope convinced that the church must urgently reform itself, by accompanying ordinary people in the struggle to believe, in our dangerously polarized world.”
– Brother Mark O’Connor fms, Pope Francis Fellow, Newman Collage, University of Melbourne, Australia.

Michael. W. Higgins is President and Vice-Chancellor Emeritus, St. Jerome’s University in the University of Waterloo; Basilian Distinguished Fellow in Contemporary Catholic Thought, St. Michael’s College of the University of Toronto; and Distinguished Professor of Catholic Thought Emeritus, Sacred Heart University, Connecticut. He writes on Vatican affairs for the Globe and Mail, served as chief consultant of Sir Peter Ustinov’s Inside the Vatican television series, and was co-author of the best-selling Power and Peril: The Catholic Church at the Crossroads. He lives in Guelph, Ontario.

   

Michael. W. Higgins