good afternoon. welcome to our session with the author, mark k. shriver. my name is dan. my wife and i are the proud parents of three k school graduates and i m the dean of the law school at cass university. withbe get started, a few reminders. please be sure that your cell phones are turned off or in the silent mode. after i introduce mr. shriver our program today will follow a question and answer format to facilitate our discussion. i will be asking questions for the first 30 minutes or so, then for the next 40 minutes we ll turn the program over to you, members of the audience to ask questions. you ll be invited to come to the microphone ther center of the room. whenout your turn, please fivous and briefly, briefly, ask you question. immediately after we conclude mr. shriver will be available in the activity building to sign copies of his book. mark shriver is the author of the book toy pilgrimage my search for the real pope fran tis president of the save the children n
question and answer format to facilitate our discussion. i will be asking questions for the first 30 minutes or so, then for the next 40 minutes we ll turn the program over to you, members of the audience to ask questions. you ll be invited to come to the microphone ther center of the room. whenout your turn, please fivous and briefly, briefly, ask you question. immediately after we conclude mr. shriver will be available in the activity building to sign copies of his book. mark shriver is the author of the book toy pilgrimage my search for the real pope fran tis president of the save the children network in washington, dc and a form maryland state legislator, this is mr. shriver res second book. er is first book: a good man, rediscovering my father, sergeant shriver was a new york times and washington post best seller. mr. shriver has a wife and three children. for those who have not yet read the book i thought i would share with you a review about the book which will
i needed a grounding in order to be able to write this book about a woman who is really just absolutely magnificent when you read the book, you ll be blown away by her life. now, many folks here in this room and of course at mt. vernon, this is no new story. we know about ona judge and you are among a small group of people who actually now happy there are many more who know her. this expectation. i want her name to become one of those sort of household names, like a frederick douglass, lake harriet tubman because she rubbed away decade before they do. sew so the title a quick story about the titling never caught. this is one motor vehicle first one of my first choices for the title of of the book ann the perfected hated it. they said gives away the story, erica. i said, yeah, but so does 12 yours a slave. only, we understand, it was 12 years, going to end at some point. with never caught this is a history of how a woman who was a fugitive, never found freedom. she
(speaking spanish) (female translator) he also has a dark past, and he will have to answer for that at the end of the world. (narrator) who is jorge mario bergoglio? how did the man who was loved and loathed by his fellow jesuits in argentina become pope? and can he revolutionize the roman catholic church? (male #3) francis bergoglio says, the church is falling down. god is sending me to repair the church. (male #4) there has been just a growing confusion about what the church really teaches. (female #3) the big issue, the one that he s not really got a handle on yet, and that is the issue of women in the church. (male #5) his head is like game of thrones, in a good way. (speaking in foreign language) (cheering) (narrator) from the moment he stepped out on the balcony of st. peter s, pope francis set a very different tone for his papacy. in just two years, he has put catholicism back on the map as a faith that has something to offer a troubled world. he s tackling big iss
(speaking spanish) (female translator) he also has a dark past, and he will have to answer for that at the end of the world. (narrator) who is jorge mario bergoglio? how did the man who was loved and loathed by his fellow jesuits in argentina become pope? and can he revolutionize the roman catholic church? (male #3) francis bergoglio says, the church is falling down. god is sending me to repair the church. (male #4) there has been just a growing confusion about what the church really teaches. (female #3) the big issue, the one that he s not really got a handle on yet, and that is the issue of women in the church. (male #5) his head is like game of thrones, in a good way. (speaking in foreign language) (cheering) (narrator) from the moment he stepped out on the balcony of st. peter s, pope francis set a very different tone for his papacy. in just two years, he has put catholicism back on the map as a faith that has something to offer a troubled world. he s tackling big iss