Autobiography new release

Pope Francis allegedly escaped an attack during his trip to Iraq in March 2021, which local authorities denied. The pope described some Israeli raids on Gaza as “terroristic” and confirmed that “the question of women’s access to the diaconal ministry, which requires great discernment, remains open for study.” This is the gist of the new information contained in Hope, published January 15.

Autobiography new release

It’s not much. But what matters in this new autobiography is perhaps less what the pope recounts than how he recounts it.

As in any initiation story, the hero of Hope—Jorge Mario Bergoglio—moves through the narrative by meeting a host of secondary characters.

“I didn’t want to journey alone,” Francis writes in Chapter 13, recounting his discharge from the hospital in 1957—when a lobe of his lung was removed—and his desire to become a missionary in Japan. “I didn't see myself as a lone priest, a secular priest.

I needed a community: It was a need that I always sensed, the feeling and awarene