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The groundbreaking, intimate and inspiring memoir from Pope Francis.
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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 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.
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HOPE 9780241764107 Hardback
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Hope
The most fascinating section of the autobiography of Pope Francis was pages 1-95. These described his early life in South America, and also the perils of the ocean voyage there before World War Two. The remainder is a stout lesson on the futility of war, also the evils of humankind oitside it. A num…
The most fascinating section of the autobiography of Pope Francis was pages 1-95. These described his early life in South America, and also the perils of the ocean voyage there before World War Two. The remainder is a stout lesson on the futility of war, also the evils of humankind oitside it. A number of good quotations from the world of literature and The Bible back up this beautifully presented book.
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Hope
The autobiography of Papa Francis packs some powerful anti-war punch.
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Another Man in the Street
Author: Caryl Phillips.
- Authors:
- Francis, Pope
- Year Published:
- 2025
- Country of Publication:
- United Kingdom
- Format:
- Hardback
- ISBN:
- 9780241764107
- Number of Pages:
- 320
- Publication Date:
- 14/01/2025
- Publisher:
- Penguin Books Ltd
- Language:
- English
- Place of Publication:
- London
- SKU:
- 9780241764107