Cardinal jorge mario bergoglio biography books
Cardinal jorge mario bergoglio biography books
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Hope: The Autobiography
NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • 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 cr