He Pope Francisco shares his memories through a new book. “Life. My story through history“, will arrive in stores next Tuesday, March 19, and those who purchase it will be able to read about his hopes for the Catholic Church, reflections on his private life and its intersection with major world events.
The work was written by Supreme Pontiff in collaboration with the Italian journalist Fabio Marchese Ragona via HarperCollins publisher. The premiere takes place in the eleventh anniversary of the investiture of Francis as the first Latin American Pope.
What Pope Francis’ new book is about
The autobiography details the life of Jorge bergoglio and takes a tour of personal and historical events in his 87 years of life. Among the main themes, Francisco addresses his health, his family, a love from his youth and intertwines them with events such as the Second World War, the Holocaust, the Cold War, the landing on the Moon in 1969, the fall of the Berlin Wall in 1989, the attacks of September 11, 2001 and the resignation of Benedict XVI in 2013.
The book has 230 pages and begins with his childhood in Buenos Aires until reaching the present day. Furthermore, it refers to the possibility of resigningyour decision to allow blessings for people in homosexual relationships and how he imagines the Catholic Church in the future.
Pope Francis, intimate in his new book
One of the topics that the Supreme Pontiff addresses significantly is his health. As is public knowledge, The Pope has been going through several episodes of bronchitis that he has been forced to have an assistant read his speeches, which generates much speculation about his well-being.
About this, Francisco affirms in his book that he has already written a letter of resignation that is in the Secretariat of State in the event of a “serious physical impairment.” However, he maintains that this is a “distant” possibilitysince he is not going through any serious cause and assured that enjoys good health.
Taking his health as a point, the Pope jokes in his work about conservative critics who perhaps “hoped” he would have announced his resignation after a stay in the hospital. However, he claims that there is no risk for that to happen because “there are many projects to bring to fruition, God willing.”
In that same line, Francisco He acknowledged that critics have accused him of destroying the papacy. One of the decisions made by Dad recently that generated great controversy was that of allow Catholic priests to bless people in homosexual relationships.
About this, Francisco denies that criticism of his decision could divide the church and maintains that “they are not blessings for the union itself, but for individuals who seek the Lord but are rejected or persecuted“.
Finally, the Supreme Pontiff reveals how he imagines the Church in the future: “I imagine a mother Church that welcomes everyoneeven to those who feel wrong and have been judged by us in the past.”
Source: Ambito
