Pope Francis. Loyola Press, $22.95 (200p) ISBN 978-0-8294-4168-0
Former Cardinal Jorge Mario Bergoglio recently celebrated his one-year anniversary as Pope Francis. This collection of homilies and public addresses serves as a mission statement for this papacy. Francis preaches the gospel of mercy and invites...
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Pope Francis. Loyola, $22.95 (160p) ISBN 978-0-8294-4248-9
This new collection of excerpts from papal encyclicals, recent homilies, and addresses focuses on returning to the basics of the faith and seeing them through fresh eyes and a renewed perspective. Using the act of walking to symbolize and explore...
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Pope Francis. Loyola, $18.95 (76p) ISBN 978-0-8294-4433-9
Gathered from more than 250 submissions, 30 letters from children to Pope Francis are answered in a picture book that feels akin to sitting in on a series of intimate conversations. The letters, hand-written and illustrated, are reproduced on left-ha
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Pope Francis, with Dominique Wolton, trans. from the French by Shaun Whiteside. St. Martin’s, $29.99 (320p) ISBN 978-1-250-20056-3
French journalist Wolton bases this uneven work on 12 interviews he conducted with Pope Francis between 2016 and 2017. The book collects these dialogues in eight thematic sections alongside extracts from Pope Francis’s formal addresses, given...
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Pope Francis. Orbis, $20 (192p) ISBN 978-1-62698-188-1
Eschewing the common tactic in celebrity memoirs of focusing heavily on personality and status, Francis's (Praise Be to You) entirely humble, entirely Christ-centered text is a refreshing look at the mental inner workings of the world's most...
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Pope Francis, with Thomas Leoncini, trans. from the Italian by Anne Milano Appel. Random House, $26 (128p) ISBN 978-1-984801-40-1
Pope Francis speaks frankly about problems facing the young and the elderly, Catholic and non-Catholic, throughout the world in this brief treatise. Francis begins by insisting that God is young because he dreams and makes things new again. During...
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Pope Francis. Random House, $26 (176p) ISBN 978-0-399-58863-1
Pope Francis proclaimed 2016 "the extraordinary jubilee year of mercy"; in this small, persuasive book, he explains that "we need constantly to contemplate the mystery of mercy." The first two-thirds consists of questions posed by Andrea Tornielli,...
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Pope Francis. Random House, $27 (247p) ISBN 978-0-52551-097-0
With this wide-ranging collection of writings, homilies, and addresses, the current pontiff dispels any notion that religious practice is dour and antiquated. True to his origins as a Jesuit priest, Pope Francis places the laity above all else and...
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Pope Francis. HarperOne, $28.99 (240p) ISBN 978-0-06-338752-2
Pope Francis (A Good Life) provides a plainspoken overview of how some of the most significant events of the 20th and early 21st centuries shaped his life and morals. Among other episodes, he examines how the news from Nazi Germany he heard during...
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