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The Autobiography
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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, the pressing needs of our times...
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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, 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. He reflects on controversial questions from global conflicts to the future of the Church and discusses 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 represent his legacy of hope for future generations.
Book Details
INFORMATION
ISBN: 9780241767160
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
Format: Paperback / softback
Date Published: 14 January 2025
Country: United Kingdom
Imprint: Viking
Contributors:
- Translated by Richard Dixon
Audience: General / adult, Tertiary education, Professional and scholarly
DIMENSIONS
Spine width: 25.0mm
Width: 154.0mm
Height: 234.0mm
Weight: 395g
Pages: 320
About the Author
Pope Francis (Author) Pope Francis was born in Buenos Aires on December 17, 1936, the son of Italian migrants, the first of five children born in the working-class barrio of Flores, Jorge Mario Bergoglio qualified as a chemical technician, graduated in philosophy in 1963, and became a priest in 1969. He was appointed provincial of the Jesuits of Argentina in 1973, and was named auxiliary bishop in 1992, archbishop of Buenos Aires in 1998, and created cardinal in 2001. In 2013, he became the Bishop of Rome and the 266th Pope of the Catholic Church. HOPE was written in collaboration with Carlo Musso and is being published simultaneously in major languages in over eighty countries. Richard Dixon (Translator) Richard Dixon lives and works in Italy. His translations include works by Giacomo Leopardi, Umberto Eco, Roberto Calasso, Paolo Volponi and Antonio Moresco. His translation of The Experience of Pain by Carlo Emilio Gadda is published by Penguin Classics.
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