Spera. The autobiography. Francesco

At the wish of Pope Francis, this exceptional document was initially intended to be published only after his death. But the new Jubilee of Hope and the needs of our time have led him to share this precious legacy now. A complete autobiography, whose writing occupied the last six years, it begins in the early twentieth century, with his Italian roots and his ancestors’ adventurous emigration to Latin America, and unfolds through his childhood, the enthusiasms and turmoil of youth, his vocational choice, and maturity, eventually covering his entire pontificate and the present day. In recounting his memories with intimate narrative power (without omitting his passions), Francis also confronts, without any fading into the background, the crucial issues of his pontificate and addresses with courage, candor, and prophetic insight the most important and debated topics of our contemporary world: war and peace (including the conflicts in Ukraine and the Middle East), migration, the environmental crisis, social policy, the status of women, sexuality, technological development, and the future of the Church and religions.