In his newly released memoir, Hope, the story of the world that made Jorge Mario Bergoglio — and, by extension, the world leader we know as Pope Francis — is a story finally told in his own words. But ...

Again, the Vatican intervened by removing the keffiyeh with the excuse that the infant Jesus is traditionally not placed in the manger until Christmas ... concerning Pope Pius XII’s leadership ...

But Francis decided to release the book sooner to coincide with the Catholic Church's Jubilee Year, which began on Christmas ... by a sitting pope, it trails Pope Pius II's reflections on the ...