Evangelization as Revolution: How Pope Francis is Changing the Church

MORRISTOWN, N.J. - Oct. 14, 2014 - PRLog -- Pope Francis is an enormously popular figure, but many people also want to know whether that popularity will translate into real change in the Catholic church.  David Gibson, Catholic author and national reporter for Religious News Service, will look at how Francis is trying to reform the church and how his style really is substance.

An award-winning journalist, author, filmmaker and a convert to Catholicism, David Gibson specializes in writing about religion.   He has covered the religion beat in his native New Jersey and written for leading magazines and newspapers including The New York Times, Newsweek, The Wall Street Journal, New York magazine, Commonweal, and America. The Coming Catholic Church:  How the Faithful are Shaping the New American Catholicism is one of his two books on Catholicism.  Gibson has won the Templeton Religion Reporter of the Year Award, the top honor for journalists covering religion in the secular press, and has twice won from the American Academy of Religion their top prize for writing on religion.  A regular TV and radio commentator, he has appeared on ABC, NBC, and CNN News and PBS’ Religion and Ethics Newsweekly.