KANSAS CITY (MO)
National Catholic Reporter

February 21, 2018

A Pope Francis Lexicon is a new volume collecting 54 essays by prominent figures on the different words that have become important in the ministry of Pope Francis. The book has a foreword from Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomew and a preface from Boston Cardinal Sean O’Malley.

The volume is co-edited by Cindy Wooden, Rome bureau chief for Catholic News Service, and Joshua J. McElwee, NCR’s Vatican correspondent. Following are condensed excerpts from three of the essays in the Lexicon, available in the U.S. from Liturgical Press on Feb. 15.

– Careerism, by Cardinal Joseph W. Tobin, CSsR

– Throwaway Culture, by Sr. Pat Farrell, OSF

– Women, Astrid Lobo Gajiwala