Originally published at National Catholic Register
The autobiographical memoir, which will be titled ‘Hope,’ will debut during the Jubilee Year of Hope.
In January 2025, Pope Francis will become the first sitting pontiff to publish an autobiographical memoir, which will be titled Hope.
Random House Publishing announced the memoir’s unprecedented global release on Wednesday. The original plan, according to the publisher, had been to release the memoir after his death. However, the Pope decided to publish it in light of the upcoming 2025 Jubilee Year of Hope.
A jubilee year occurs every 25 years in the Catholic Church — although the Holy Father can declare them more often — and is a year of special grace and pilgrimage for members of the faithful.
The memoir, which the Holy Father began work on in March 2019, will be available in more than 80 countries on Jan. 14, 2025.
“The book of my life is the story of a journey of hope, a journey that I cannot separate from the journey of my family, of my people, of all God’s people. In every page, in every passage, it is also the book of those who have traveled with me, of those who came before, of those who
