{"id":7816,"date":"2013-08-01T15:44:32","date_gmt":"2013-08-01T14:44:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/paulvallely.com\/archive\/?p=7816"},"modified":"2021-08-01T17:03:29","modified_gmt":"2021-08-01T16:03:29","slug":"pope-francis-untying-the-knots","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/paulvallely.com\/archive\/?p=7816","title":{"rendered":"Pope Francis: Untying the Knots"},"content":{"rendered":"

Paul Vallely’s biography of the new Pope Pope Francis: Untying the Knots<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

has just been published b\"\"<\/a>y Bloomsbury at \u00a312.99<\/p>\n

Buy it here<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n

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Reviews:<\/strong><\/p>\n

Peter Stanford in The Sunday Times<\/a> says:<\/p>\n

“Paul Vallely’s biography of Francis…stands, in terms of seriousness of purpose and depth of understanding, head and shoulders above other recent rushed cuttings jobs”\u00a0 <\/em><\/p>\n

Read Peter Stanford’s review in here: Sunday Times review of Untying the Knots<\/a><\/p>\n

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Mark Lawson in The Guardian<\/a>:<\/p>\n

\u201cVallely gives riveting accounts of the “conclaves” in which first, in 2005, Cardinal Ratzinger was named Benedict XVI to follow John Paul II and then, in 2012, the first pope from the Americas was selected to succeed Benedict.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n

\u201ctough-minded analysis\u2026 lifts the book well above the nervous reverence of much papal biography, and should recommend it to an audience broader than Catholics\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n

\u201creads like a lost, unexpectedly literate chapter of The Da Vinci Code\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n

\u201cit’s hard to imagine the rapid papal biography being done better\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n

read Mark Lawson’s review in The Guardian here <\/a><\/p>\n

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Michael Walsh in The Tablet<\/a>:<\/p>\n

\u201cthoroughly convincing\u201d\u00a0\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n

\u201cRead this book, forget the rest\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n

read Michael Walsh’s review in The Tablet here<\/a><\/p>\n

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Raymond A Schroth SJ, in the US Jesuit magazine America<\/a>:<\/p>\n

\u201cAt last a book has put both Jorge Mario Bergoglio, SJ, and Pope Francis in context, and explained the mystery of this man who seems to have come from nowhere to lead the Catholic Church at a critical time.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n

“an honest portrait”<\/em><\/p>\n

“Vallely meticulously assesses his subject”<\/em><\/p>\n

read\u00a0Raymond A Schroth’s review in America here <\/a><\/p>\n

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Luke Coppen in The Independent<\/a>:<\/p>\n

“Vallely skilfully unravels the competing narrative threads, without ever oversimplifying either Argentine politics or the new Pontiff’s complex personality”<\/em><\/p>\n

“for such a sophisticated biography to appear now, less than six months after the papal election, is little short of a publishing miracle”<\/em><\/p>\n

read Luke Coppen’s review in The Independent here<\/a><\/p>\n

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John Wilkins in the Church Times:<\/p>\n

“in a different class from other instant biographies”<\/em><\/p>\n

“a compelling account”<\/em><\/p>\n

\u00a0read John Wilkins review here: Church Times review of Pope Francis – Untying the Knots<\/a><\/p>\n

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Untying the Knots reviewed in The Economist<\/a>:<\/p>\n

“This book demonstrates that Pope Francis is a tougher, more complex figure than meets the eye. A turbulent life has given the pontiff a subtle sense of the realities of power, and the courage to act on it. Anybody who reads this book will eagerly await his next move.”<\/em><\/p>\n

read The Economist review here<\/a><\/p>\n

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Tim Byron SJ reviews Untying the Knots <\/em>in Thinking Faith<\/a><\/em> – the online journal of the British Jesuits:<\/p>\n

\u2018Untying the Knots\u2019 \u2013 is a stroke of genius. It expresses succinctly but also with a certain profundity the challenge at hand.<\/em><\/p>\n

“great insight”<\/em><\/p>\n

“a contemporary biography with the cadences of a film script”<\/em><\/p>\n

Vallely is an excellent, well-connected writer, and Pope Francis: Untying the Knots is an engaging and thoughtful read throughout. He turns out to be a good \u2018untier\u2019 of the knots<\/em><\/p>\n

read Tim Byron’s review here<\/a><\/p>\n

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Tom Heneghan, religion editor, Reuters<\/a>, writes:<\/p>\n

“Paul Vallely’s Untying the Knots fills the gaps left by ‘instant books’ on Pope Francis”<\/em><\/p>\n

Read Tom Heneghan here<\/a><\/p>\n

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John Cornwell in the Times Literary Supplement<\/a><\/p>\n

“Vallely\u2019s book is a formidable achievement”<\/em><\/p>\n

Read John Cornwell’s TLS review here<\/a><\/p>\n

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Interviews:<\/strong><\/p>\n

listen to Sean O’Rourke’s interview with Paul Vallely on Today on RTE here<\/a><\/p>\n

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listen to Paul Vallely interviewed by William Crawley on The Sunday Programme on BBC Radio 4 here: Paul Vallely Interview on the Sunday programme<\/a><\/p>\n

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listen to Paul Vallely interviewed\u00a0 on\u00a0 Sunday Sequence on BBC Radio Ulster on BBC Radio here: Paul Vallely interview 4th August 2013<\/a><\/p>\n

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Watch Paul Vallely talking about the book on BBC TV here: BBC_World_News_2013-08-05_12-46-05<\/a><\/p>\n

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Buy Pope Francis – Untying the Knots\u00a0 here<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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