[Ohio-Talk] FW: Hope: The Autobiography of Pope Francis is now available in braille!

Tue May 27 19:12:07 UTC 2025

From: Xavier Society for the Blind <info at xaviersocietyfortheblind.org> 
Sent: Tuesday, May 27, 2025 1:40 PM
To: smturner.234 at gmail.com
Subject: Hope: The Autobiography of Pope Francis is now available in braille!

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Greetings Suzanne, 

We hope you all had a nice Memorial Day Weekend. We wanted to share some very special news with you: Hope: The Autobiography of Pope Francis is now available (free-of-charge) in hard copy braille and electronic BRF! Pope Francis originally intended this exceptional memoir to appear only after his death, but the needs of our times and the 2025 Jubilee Year of Hope moved him to make this precious legacy available sooner. Now, the book stands as his testament; the spiritual, faith-filled, as well as moral, social, and civic legacy that he envisioned and left for the benefit of all the men and women of the world.

Hope is the first autobiography in history ever to be published by a Pope! Written over six years, this complete autobiography starts in the early years of the twentieth century, with Pope Francis’s Italian roots and his ancestors’ courageous migration to Latin America, continuing through his childhood, the enthusiasms and preoccupations of his youth, his vocation, adult life, and the whole of his papacy up to the present day.

In recounting his memories with intimate narrative force (not forgetting his own personal passions), Pope Francis deals unsparingly with some of the crucial moments of his papacy and writes candidly, fearlessly, and prophetically about some of the most important and controversial questions of our present times: war and peace (including the conflicts in Ukraine and the Middle East), migration, environmental crisis, social policy, the position of women, sexuality, technological developments, the future of the Church and of religion in general.

Hope includes a wealth of revelations, anecdotes, and illuminating thoughts. It is a thrilling and very human memoir, moving and sometimes funny, which represents the “story of a life” and, at the same time, a touching moral and spiritual testament that will fascinate readers throughout the world and will be Pope Francis’s legacy of hope for future generations.

Like all of our braille books, Hope is for clients to keep and provided free-of-charge. If you are interested in receiving this in hard copy braille (4 volumes) or electronic BRF for your braille display, get in touch by replying to this email. You can also call us at 800-637-9193 or 212-473-7800. We look forward to serving you!

P.S. Thank you to our generous donors for helping us provide this title, and all of our offerings, to our clients worldwide at no cost to them.

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