Start your Independent Premium subscription today. Hope is a book that combines an account of Pope Francis’ life with his musings on faith, love, poverty, migrants, women, gay people ...

Constantly in the public eye, Pope Francis is instantly recognisable across the globe, and his likeness adorns t-shirts, mugs ...

Pope Francis knows threats and warnings can never be the way to win over peopleOpens in new window ] One of the few revelations in the book concerns his visit to Iraq in 2021. British intelligence ...

“Each time a pope takes ill, the winds of a conclave always feel as if they are blowing,” Francis states in the book, referring to the secret meeting of Catholic cardinals that will one day ...

Pope Francis says that he’s in great health and has absolutely no plans on retiring. In a recent book, Pope Francis, who turned 88 last month, stated that he is in good health and has <a ...

VATICAN CITY (Reuters) - Pope Francis, who turned 88 last month and asked an aide to read a major speech last week due to a cold, says in a new book that he feels healthy and has no plans to resign as ...

Pope Francis feels healthy, no plans to resign Pope defends blessings for same-sex couples New book "Hope" reviews Francis's life and decisions VATICAN CITY, Jan 14 (Reuters) - Pope Francis ...

There seem to be an awful lot of misunderstandings in Hope, this autobiography of Pope Francis. It is the second in a year that he has written – or rather told to someone, in this case an ...

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 ...

"Pope Francis went on to say that his heart is close to all the people who inhabit the Holy Land, which includes Israelis and ...

“His mother, although she was Catholic, opposed Jorge Mario Bergoglio’s vocation and did not want to visit him in the ...

VATICAN CITY — Pope Francis, who turned 88 last month and asked an aide to read a major speech last week due to a cold, says in a new book that he feels healthy and has no plans to resign as ...