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CV NEWS FEED // Random House announced on October 17 that it will publish the autobiography of Pope Francis on January 14, 2025, in time for the Jubilee of Hope.
Random House called the memoir “a text of great narrative force” in which Pope Francis “addresses candidly, courageously and prophetically some of the most important and controversial questions of our current times.”
Random House also states that the autobiography, which the Pope took six years to complete, was not supposed to be released until after his death. However, he decided to publish it in time for the 2025 jubilee.
The autobiography details the Pope’s life, including his Italian ancestors’ emigration to Argentina, his childhood, and his young adulthood, all the way up to his current papacy.
The book will be published simultaneously in major world languages in 80 countries.
Pope Francis said, “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,” continuing,
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 will follow. An autobiography is not our own private story, but rather the baggage we carry with us. And memory is not just what we recall, but what surrounds us. It doesn’t speak only about what has been, but about what will be. It seems like yesterday, and yet it’s tomorrow. All is born to blossom in an eternal springtime. In the end, we will say only: I don’t recall anything in which You are not there.
