A member of the nation's most famous Catholic political clan, Mark Shriver said he had grown “disillusioned” with the church thanks to the clergy abuse scandal and other issues, and for years he had been pouring much of his spiritual energy into his work as head of Save the Children Action Network.
But from the moment Cardinal Jorge Mario Bergoglio was elected Pope Francis in 2013, the pontiff fascinated Shriver. He soon set out to Argentina – Bergoglio's homeland – and to the Vatican, among other places, for a book that would become “Pilgrimage: My Search for the Real Pope Francis.”
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