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.
- 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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- How does the narrator connect personal memory with public events?
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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
- Penguin Random House · Random House · Hope
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