A number of reviews have challenged the idea that Hope: the Autobiography of Pope Francis is in fact an autobiography. The Irish Times reviewer suggested that “it is some recollections from his life by Francis which act as a springboard for his reflections on current events...
The autobiography titled Spera ("Hope") brings together experiences from Pope Francis's childhood, starting with the origin of the Bergoglio family, which was forced to emigrate from Piedmont, up to the birth of Jorge, and has been published in over a hundred countries. The volume was created...
The groundbreaking, intimate and inspiring memoir from Pope Francis. Books of the Year 2025: The Times, Telegraph, Guardian, Independent, Financial Times, New Statesman 'Remarkable' Guardian 'Elegant and joyful' Financial Times Pope Francis originally intended this exceptional book to appear only after...
One of the latest to be unveiled features Pope Francis, who signed a panel on his visit to the city last year. Jane Golden, a Stanford-educated dynamo, founded the Philadelphia Mural Arts Program, the most prolific of its kind in the world. It has created close to 4,000 murals since 1...
‘Enea Silvio Piccolomini’s Commentarii’ is another example that actually tells the story of how Piccolomini became the pope in eleven and a half books. The semi-autobiographical novel ‘Sartor Resartus’ by Thomas Carlyle. ‘Apologia’ by John Henry Cardinal Newman. ...
Jewel said she’s especially proud of photography she did that appears in the book. ”The middle section is my photography,” she said. ”My friend I was working with that helped me design the book really liked it and thought we should put it in.” ...
Biography - Narrative, Genre, Today: In the United States, Great Britain, and the rest of the Western world generally, biography today enjoys a moderate popular and critical esteem. In the year 1929, at the height of the biographical “boom,” there were
The Pope meant to give it to King Francis; but first he wished it richly set in gold, and ordered us to make sketches for this purpose. When they were finished, we took them to the Pope. That of Tobbia was in the form of a candlestick, the horn being stuck in it like a candle...
Mr. Muhammad sent me a typed reply. It had an all but electrical effect upon me to see the signature of the “Messenger of Allah.” After he welcomed me into the “true knowledge,” he gave me something to think about. The black prisoner, he said, symbolized white society’s crime of...