In his 1988 Lost in a Book: The Psychology of Reading for Pleasure, Victor Nell said much the same thing. Reading was for ...

As anyone who has spent time in a publishing house knows only too well, the notion that ‘there’s a book in everyone’ is a cruel lie. Be that as it may, autobiography is the one branch of writing at ...

Francis is also in a unique position, in that he follows two popes who had a more conservative view of what Vatican II represented. In Catholic theological terms, St. Pope John Paul II and Benedict ...

“In the autobiography, the reader will obviously be able to get a look into his personal life, his priestly life, and the entire pontificate. But it’s clear that hope has been the glue that ...

Pope Francis has made his official debut on the controversial social media platform TikTok in a bid to engage younger audiences and promote his autobiography, Spera ("Hope"). In a video shared on the ...

Copyright 2025 The Associated Press. All Rights Reserved. The new autobiography of Pope Francis, co-written with the Italian journalist Carlo Musso, was released on ...

“Hope,” the autobiography of Pope Francis, hit the shelves of Italian bookstores Tuesday and will be on sale starting Jan. 16 in more than 100 countries. The book marks the first time a pope ...

Author Tess Livingstone (r) and the cover of her biography of Cardinal George Pell (photo: Courtesy of Carmel Communications and Ignatius Press) Edward Pentin Books January 9, 2025 Two years after ...

ROME (AP) — “Hope: The Autobiography” was only supposed to be published after Francis’ death. But at his own request, the book is hitting bookshelves now in more than 80 countries to ...

An autobiography was an opportunity ... the “many personal details” the book added to Pope Francis’ biography, but that much had been written through “rose-tinted glasses”.

Pope Francis cites Benedict XVI only in a few passages in his over 300-page autobiography Pope Francis' predecessor, Benedict XVI, handed him a large white box containing several confidential ...