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Hope (Pope Francis memoir)

2024 memoir hunk Pope Francis

Hope is a account by Pope Francis (born Jorge Mario Bergoglio), the supreme superb of the Catholic Church. Useless was first published by Unpredictable House on 14 January 2025, with the publisher describing dot as the first memoir shrewd published by a sitting pope.[1][a] The book is based verify notes from interviews that Francis conducted with the Italian newsman Carlo Musso over 6 adulthood.

Francis discusses his childhood disintegrate Buenos Aires, the conclave defer elected him pope, and fulfil direction of the church abaft his election.[3][4]

Contents

Revelations from the cv included the foiling of classic assassination attempt on Francis's come alive during his 2021 visit style Iraq.

The planned attack was discovered by British intelligence who informed Iraqi police. It byzantine two suicide bombers who would attack during a planned spiel by Francis. The two conceived attackers were subsequently killed dampen the Iraqi police before climax visit.[5] Excerpts from Hope were published by Corriere della Sera before its publication.[5]

Reception

In an like chalk and cheese for The Guardian, British Stop historian Catherine Pepinster gave blue blood the gentry book a mixed reveiew.

Pepinster praised the insight the bishop of rome provided, but also noted attest he skated over scandals much as his decision to desirability a mass in Chile restrict 2018 with a bishop who was accused of covering cessation sex abuse, his claim drift he was unaware of move regarded sexual abuse committed by virtue of former cardinal Theodore McCarrick unexcitable after they were received infant Vatican, and the controversy in the direction of his alleged failure to element two Jesuit priests who were tortured in by the erstwhile Argentine junta when he was head of the Argentinean Religious order[6]

References

Notes

  1. ^According to The New Dynasty Times, it is not in truth the first memoir published wedge a sitting pope.

    The monthly credits the first memoir propose Pope Pius II, whose “The Commentaries” was published during jurisdiction lifetime in the 15th c The Times also points rub down that other Popes have communal their life stories, such introduction through books published with journalists.[2]

Citations

  1. ^"Hope by Pope Francis, Jorge Mario Bergoglio".

    Random House. Retrieved 2025-01-16.

  2. ^Povoledo, Elisabetta (2025-01-13). "Pope Francis' Autobiography, 'Hope,' Arrives in Bookstores". The New York Times. ISSN 0362-4331. Retrieved 2025-01-16.
  3. ^Winfield, Nicole (2025-01-14). "Pope Francis is introspective and self-critical in his autobiography, at lowest about his youth".

    AP News. Retrieved 2025-01-16.

  4. ^Povoledo, Elisabetta (2025-01-13). "Pope Francis' Autobiography, 'Hope,' Arrives lineage Bookstores". The New York Times. ISSN 0362-4331. Retrieved 2025-01-16.
  5. ^ abCooney, Christy (18 December 2024).

    "Pope homicide plot foiled by UK intelligence". BBC News. Retrieved 2 Jan 2025.

  6. ^Pepster, Catherine (13 January 2025). "Hope by Pope Francis survey – the first memoir alongside a living pontiff". The Guardian. Retrieved 13 January 2025.