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Hope

Francis’s autobiographical account of experience, vocation and service. It adds a personal voice to the Vatican library, to be distinguished from an official institutional document.

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Title
Hope
Author
Pope Francis (Jorge Mario Bergoglio)
Language
EN
Category
Autobiography
Historical scope
Twentieth–twenty-first centuries
Edition and scope of the entry

Random House; hardcover, 14 January 2025; 320 pages; ISBN 9780593978771. The combined product page also lists other formats with their own dates.

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Questions for further research

  1. How does the narrator connect personal memory with public events?
  2. Which passage requires comparison with an official document or an independent chronology?
Reading notes

Autobiographical memory and official documents are different kinds of evidence. The book does not speak for every subsequent pope or establish the institution’s current position.

Sources and further research

  1. Penguin Random House · Random House · Hope

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