“Hope is the mainstay that undergirds Pope Francis’ entire life and is the thread that holds together this long narrative, even in the pages in which he recounts true horrors,” commented ...

a 13-book account of his life that is considered a seminal text in Renaissance humanism. Pope Francis is also not the first pope to share his life story. As a cardinal, the late Joseph Ratzinger ...

Pope Francis also discusses his health and asserts again that he has never thought of resigning, although like his predecessors he had prepared a letter early in his pontificate offering his ...

That honor belongs to Pope Pius II’s 15th Century chronicles, “The Commentaries,” a 13-book account of his life that is considered a seminal text in Renaissance humanism. Francis is also not ...