Pope Francis Publishes 'Hope.' [View all]

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Being a humble bishop he doesn't advertise it. It was released Tuesday, Jan 14 2025.

In the Church's 20 centuries, Francis is the first pope to write an autobiography.

His book is for everyone, not just Catholic laity. It's about more than how his family arrived and raised him in Argentina, and how he later unexpectedly became the Bishop of Rome, and his work across continents, and his sins & the sins of the Church.

Hope reaches out to us in ways we cannot feel and know by 'ex cathedra,' imo.

The first two thirds of his book are more heart-to-heart stories and meditations about friendship, loving our near & distant neighbor, sin, repentance, lessons from the pandemic, spirituality, war, technology. The last third is Francis, humans' humble, spiritual equal, showing us that human souls are anchored in Hope such that faith is weak without it.