Hope: The Autobiography - Rilegato

Pope Francis

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ISBN 10: 0593978773 ISBN 13: 9780593978771

Casa editrice: Random House, 2025

Riassunto

Hope: The Autobiography

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Informazioni sull'autore

Pope Francis was born in Buenos Aires on December 17, 1936, son of Italian migrants, the first of five children born in the working-class barrio of Flores. He qualified as a chemical technician, graduated in philosophy in 1963, became a priest in 1969, joined the provincial of the Jesuits of Argentina in 1973, was named auxiliary bishop in 1992, archbishop of Buenos Aires in 1998, created cardinal in 2001, and in March 13, 2013, Bishop of Rome and the 266th Pope of the Catholic Church. For 2025, the twelfth year of his papacy, Pope Francis announced a new Jubilee with the motto “Pilgrims of Hope.” The first Jesuit and Latin American pontiff, he passed away on April 21, 2025.

Hope was written in collaboration with Carlo Musso and was published simultaneously in major languages in over eighty countries.

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Introduction

All Is Born to Blossom

The book of my life is the story of a journey of hope, a journey that I can’t imagine separated from that of my family, of my people, of all God’s people. In every page, in every passage, it is also the book of those who have traveled with me, of those who came before, of those who will follow.

An autobiography is not our private story, but rather the baggage we carry with us. And memory is not just what we recall, but what surrounds us. It speaks not only about what has been but about what will be. Memory, in the words of a Mexican poet, is a present that never ceases to pass.

It seems like yesterday, and yet it’s tomorrow.

People often say “wait and hope”—so much so that the word esperar in Spanish means both “to hope” and “to wait”—but hope is above all the virtue of movement and the engine of change: It’s the tension that brings together memory and utopia to truly build the dreams that await us. And if a dream fades, we need to go back and dream it again, in new forms, drawing with hope from the embers of memory.

We Christians must know that hope doesn’t deceive and doesn’t disappoint: All is born to blossom in an eternal springtime.

In the end, we will say only: I don’t recall anything in which You are not there.

Dettagli dell'edizione

• Editore: Random House
• Data di pubblicazione: 2025
• Lingua: Inglese
• ISBN 10: 0593978773
• ISBN 13: 9780593978771
• Rilegatura: Copertina rigida
• Numero di pagine: 304
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