In a new memoir, “Life: My Story Through History,” and a self-help book, “A Good Life,” the pope reinforces his image as approachable.
Pope Francis waves to the faithful during his general audience in St. Peter's Square, Vatican City, on Wednesday. It seems hard to believe that just a few short popes ago no one, including Catholics, had any real connection with the human running things from the throne of Saint Peter in Rome.Popes stayed in Italy and didn’t travel, and low-level technology meant Catholics didn’t expect to see or hear from them.
In two new books, Francis takes concrete steps toward setting this everyman-pope in stone for literary history. Through “Life,” which will publish Tuesday and is described as his first crack at autobiography, and a second book, called “A Good Life: 15 Essential Habits for Living With Hope and Joy,” the 87-year-old is making it really official: The pope isHe’s a guy who is hovering in the late stage of his life.
One of his lessons is that all living things are interconnected, no matter how far away we are from one another. He drives that home through his own experience, as the terrified child Bergoglio, watching scared adults around him during World War II, even as the fighting was taking place in a distant country, and later, as the Buenos Aires archbishop, immediately going into prayer when planes slammed into the World Trade Center.
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