NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • 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 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 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. The book is enhanced by remarkable photographs including
private and unpublished material made personally available by Pope Francis himself.
