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  • Published: 14 January 2025
  • ISBN: 9781405978927
  • Imprint: Penguin eBooks
  • Format: EBook
  • Pages: 320
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HOPE

The Autobiography

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14 Jan 2025
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14 Jan 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 January 2025
  • ISBN: 9781405978927
  • Imprint: Penguin eBooks
  • Format: EBook
  • Pages: 320
Categories:

About the author

Pope Francis

Pope Francis has been the Pope of the Catholic Church since March 13, 2013. Born in Buenos Aires in 1936, he was ordained as a Catholic priest in 1969. He became the Archbishop of Buenos Aires in 1998 and was created a cardinal in 2001 by Pope John Paul II. Devoted to rectifying social injustices and economic inequality, Pope Francis has said that he “would like to see a church that is poor and is for the poor.”

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Also by Pope Francis

Our Father
Ave Maria
Encyclical on Climate Change and Inequality
Encountering Truth
Lumen Fidei: The Light of Faith
See all

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