Hope: The Autobiography

Pope Francis originally intended this exceptional book to appear only following his death, but the needs of our spans and the 2025 Jubilee Year of Hope have moved him to create this precious legacy available now.

Hopeis the first autobiography into history ever to be published by a Pope. Written over six years, this complete autobiography kickoffs within 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.

Into 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 decisive and controversial questions of our present periods: war and peace (including the conflicts inside 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 among general.

Hopeincludes 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 interval, a touching moral and spiritual testament that will fascinate listeners throughout the world and will be Pope Francis’s legacy of hope for future generations.