THE GLOBAL BESTSELLER The groundbreaking intimate and inspiring memoir from Pope Francis.
Books of the Year 2025: The Times Telegraph Guardian Independent Financial Times New
Statesman 'Remarkable' Guardian 'Elegant and joyful' Financial Times Pope Francis
originally intended this exceptional memoir to appear only after his death but the needs of
our times and the 2025 Jubilee Year of Hope moved him to make this precious legacy available
sooner. Now the book stands as his testament the spiritual faith-filled as well as moral
social and civic legacy that he envisioned and left for the benefit of all the men and women
of the world. 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.
