Francis is also in a unique position, in that he follows two popes who had a more conservative view of what Vatican II ...

The book, which was six years in the making, vividly recreates Francis’ childhood in Buenos Aires but offers few new insights ...

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

One of Francis’ lasting reforms will be his reshaping of the papacy to embrace simplicity and humility. In his new ...

Hope,” the autobiography of Pope Francis, hit the shelves of Italian bookstores Tuesday and will be on sale starting Jan. 16 ...

The new autobiography of Pope Francis, co-written with the Italian journalist Carlo Musso, was released on Tuesday in more ...

The unmistakable feeling is that the hype before publication of Hope is yet another example of the triumph of marketing over ...

H is Holiness Pope Francis —the 266th bishop of Rome, supreme pontiff of the Universal Church, sovereign of the Vatican City ...

Mr Gian Maria Vian, a former editor-in-chief of the Vatican newspaper L’Osservatore Romano, said he appreciated the “many personal details” the book added to Pope Francis’ biography ...

Pope Francis is unlike any of his predecessors – not least because he is the first to write an autobiography while still in office, writes Catherine Pepinster. But while he uses the book to admits his ...

The pope, who now often uses a wheelchair due to knee and back pain, says: “The Church is governed using the head and the heart, not the legs.” Francis, originally from Argentina and the first ...

Not even the Pope can resist the temptation. So this month Pope Francis, the first Latin American and the first Jesuit to head the Catholic Church, goes where other pontiffs have not. Hope ...