The series brings together a group of Catholic thinkers to reflect on Pope Francis’s pontificate and legacy. The authors discuss the late Pope’s contribution to peacebuilding, human dignity, social justice, and environmentalism in addition to his reforms, often revolutionary, of Catholic theology, canon law, and the Church’s internal life. Pointing to peaks and valleys of the first Jesuit pope’s rule, they depict him as an extraordinary religious leader, tireless promoter of peace across the globe, and persistent defender of the vulnerable.

Editors’ Note: All posts, with the exception of Gas-Aixendi’s and Bär’s, were published prior to Pope Francis’s death.

Posts in the series:

Rev. Thomas Massaro, S.J. How the Papacy of the First Jesuit Pope Will Be Remembered in the Distant Future

Ingeborg G. Gabriel. A Big Heart Open to God: Notes on the Legacy of Pope Francis

Antonio Autiero. Francesco: Twelve Years Later

Montserrat Gas-Aixendri. Francis’s Legal Revolution: A Reforming Impulse with Many Lights and Some Shadows

Greg Marcar. Francis I: Public Theologian