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  • Published: 14 February 2025
  • ISBN: 9780241764107
  • Imprint: Viking Non Fiction
  • Format: Hardback
  • Pages: 320
  • RRP: $65.00
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HOPE

The Autobiography

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16 Feb 2027
Tr. Paperback
14 Jan 2025
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14 Jan 2025
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14 Jan 2025
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14 Feb 2025
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The groundbreaking, intimate and inspiring memoir from Pope Francis.

The wish of Pope Francis was for HOPE, on which he has been working for six years, to be published posthumously. However, with the Jubilee Year of Hope coming in 2025 and the pressing needs of our times have urged Pope Francis to share this personal legacy now.

HOPE is the revelatory first-ever autobiography to be published by a sitting Pope. Beginning in the early years of the twentieth century, Pope Francis tells the story of his life from his childhood in Buenos Aires to his calling and the whole of his papacy to the present day, while reflecting on controversial questions from global conflicts to the future of the Church, and discussing his personal passions from football to tango.

HOPE is both powerful and intimate, inspiring and full of stories never told before. It is 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 represent his legacy of hope for future generations.
  • Published: 14 February 2025
  • ISBN: 9780241764107
  • Imprint: Viking Non Fiction
  • Format: Hardback
  • Pages: 320
  • RRP: $65.00
Categories:

About the author

Pope Francis

Pope Francis was born in Buenos Aires on December 17, 1936, son of Italian migrants, the first of five children born in the working-class barrio of Flores. He qualified as a chemical technician, graduated in philosophy in 1963, became a priest in 1969, joined the provincial of the Jesuits of Argentina in 1973, was named auxiliary bishop in 1992, archbishop of Buenos Aires in 1998, created cardinal in 2001, and on March 13, 2013, Bishop of Rome and the 266th Pope of the Catholic Church. For 2025, the twelfth year of his papacy, Pope Francis announced a new Jubilee with the motto “Pilgrims of Hope.” The first Jesuit and Latin American pontiff, he passed away on April 21, 2025.
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Praise for HOPE

Hope vividly recreates the colorful world where the young Jorge Mario Bergoglio grew up

The New York Times

Vivid and sensitive . . . Francis is keenly conscious of his roots in a history of migration and a society of very diverse cultural strands. . . . Powerful and moving . . . This book is at its best when the Pope speaks directly from his first-hand experience of contact with the vulnerable, and he has a gift for bringing these encounters vividly to life

The New Statesman

For fans of Conclave, there’s quite the inside story of the real thing in 2013 in the Pope’s new autobiography. . . . The Pope who emerges from this book is an attractive figure

The London Standard