Table of Contents

Acknowledgments xi

Foreword xv

Introduction: Pope Francis and Global Catholic History 1

Historicization and Periodization: The Liminality of Francis's Pontificate 1

History, Pontificates, and the Church 3

Chronology and Periodization of Francis's Pontificate 5

A Multi-Framework Periodization 7

An Internal Periodization 13

1 Pope Francis, Global Catholic 23

Papacy and Catholicism between Universal and Global 23

Catholicism and Western Identity: From Pius XII to Benedict XVI 26

"From the Ends of the Earth": John XXIII and Francis 29

Engendering and Responding to an Evolving Catholic Church 41

Challenges to the Globalism of Bergoglio-Francis 48

2 Francis and the Reception of Vatican II as a Global Council 51

A Spiritual-Theological Reception 54

A Generative Reception 63

Conclusions 69

3 Catholicism from the Peripheries 73

The Pope and the City: Spiritual Geography of Francis 73

Liminality and Globalization: Francis's Turn to the Peripheries and the Marginalized 78

Francis's World and North America 86

The Peripheries and the Crisis of Globalization 88

The Historical and Geographical Shift of Francis's Pontificate 92

The Post-Vatican II Period, Far from Rome 95

4 Ad limina of the Peripheries: Francis's Ecclesiology of Globalization 101

Catholic Globalization, Ecumenism, and New Inculturation of the Papacy 101

Institutional and Missionary Catholicism in the Global World 108

Ecclesial and Ecclesiological Responses to Globalization 114

Ecclesiology of the Laity in the Global Church 121

5 Global Governance of the Catholic Church 129

Collegiality and Synodality versus "the Grasp of Small but Powerful Groups" 132

Reform of the Roman Curia: Resynchronization More Than Decentralization? 140

Catholic Globalization and Its Discontents 146

Governance of the Global Church and the Sexual-Abuse Crisis 151

6 The Papacy, Geopolitics, and the Crisis of Globalization 155

Francis's Post-Constantinian Church and International Affairs 157

Vatican Europeism in the Crisis of the European Union 160

Pope Francis and the United States: Ecclesial and Geopolitical Issues 163

Church and Peace: Field Hospital for a Wounded World 168

Global Papacy in an Age of Disruption 171

The Church and the World as a City, not a Village 177

Conclusion 181

Bibliography 185

Index 193