(2) The King Within: Accessing the King [Archetype] in the Male Psyche (Exploration Press, 2007; orig. ed., 1992a);
(3) The Warrior Within: Accessing the Knight [Archetype] in the Male Psyche (William Morrow, 1992b);
(4) The Magician Within: Accessing the shaman [Archetype] in the Male Psyche (William Morrow, 1993a);
(5) The Lover Within: Accessing the Lover [Archetype] in the Male Psyche (William Morrow, 1993b).
For further discussion of the Roman Catholic Church's social teaching, see the English lay theologian Anna Rowlands' fine 2021 book Towards a Politics of Communion: Catholic Social Teaching in Dark Times (T&T Clark).
Now, in the NYT news story titled "Pope Names Nun to Head a Vatican Department, a First for a Woman: Sister Simona Brambilla was appointed as the prefect of a Vatican office that oversees religious orders, but she may be alone at the top" (dated January 6, 2025), Elisabetta Povoleda reports from Rome:
In another NYT news story also dated January 6, 2025, Elizabeth Dias reports "Pope Names Vocal Supporter of migrants as Next Cardinal in Washington: The appointment of Robert W. McElroy [born on February 5, 1954] is a signal of the pope's priorities, two weeks before Donald J. Trump's term begins":
Now, in yet another recent NYT news story, Zolan Kanno-Youngs, reported from Rome, in "Biden Awards Medal of Freedom to Pope Francis: President Biden [born on November 20, 1942], a Catholic, awarded the medal with distinction to the pontiff, to whom he has turned for personal guidance" (dated January 11, 2025):
Even though certain conservative American Catholics have been outspoken in their anti-Francis rhetoric over the years of his papacy (since March 2013), more liberal American Catholics have supported Pope Francis over the years of his papacy.
For a book-length discussion of anti-Francis Catholics, see the lay Italian author Massimo Borghesi's book Catholic Discordance: Neoconservatism vs. the field Hospital Church of Pope Francis, translated by Barry Hudock (Liturgical Press Academic, 2021; orig. Italian ed., 2021).
As much as we have already learned from the biographies of Pope Francis by Austen Ivereigh and Massimo Borghesi, we may wonder just how much more we may now learn from Pope Francis himself in his new 2025 300-page book Hope: The Autobiography. It turns out that we learn much more about his childhood in his new 2025 300-page book than we had previously learned about his childhood from Ivereigh's two big biographies.
I am admittedly impressed that Pope Francis remembers so many events from his childhood in such vivid terms, I am not convinced that his various memories of his childhood actually deepen our understanding of him as a man - or as pope.
Now, in light of the fact that more liberal American Catholics have supported Pope Francis over the years of his papacy, it is not surprising that the liberal American Catholic newspaper the National Catholic Reporter featured an editorial strongly supporting McElroy's appointment as the new archbishop of Washington, D.C. titled "Editorial: McElroy is an antidote to a US capital and church riven by division" (dated January 10, 2025):
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