Hope

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Hope
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ISBN: 9780593978771
Hardcover, new
Publication Date: 1/14/2025

Brief Description:
Pope Francis originally intended this exceptional book to appear only after
his death, but the needs of our times and the 2025 Jubilee Year of Hope
have moved him to make this precious legacy available now. “Hope vividly
recreates the colorful world where the young Jorge Mario Bergoglio grew
up.”—The New York Times Hope is the first autobiography in history ever to
be published by a Pope. Written over six years, this complete autobiography
starts in the early years of the twentieth century, with Pope Francis’s
Italian roots and his ancestors’ courageous migration to Latin America,
continuing through his childhood, the enthusiasms and preoccupations of his
youth, his vocation, adult life, and the whole of his papacy up to the
present day. In recounting his memories with intimate narrative force (not
forgetting his own personal passions), Pope Francis deals unsparingly with
some of the crucial moments of his papacy and writes candidly, fearlessly,
and prophetically about some of the most important and controversial
questions of our present times: war and peace (including the conflicts in
Ukraine and the Middle East), migration, environmental crisis, social
policy, the position of women, sexuality, technological developments, the
future of the Church and of religion in general. Hope includes a wealth of
revelations, anecdotes, and illuminating thoughts. It is a thrilling and
very human memoir, moving and sometimes funny, which represents the “story
of a life” and, at the same time, a touching moral and spiritual testament
that will fascinate readers throughout the world and will be Pope Francis’s
legacy of hope for future generations. The book is enhanced by remarkable
photographs, including private and unpublished material made personally
available by Pope Francis himself.