Catholic spiritual autobiography

The iconic image of Barack Obama's presidential campaign was the retro-style poster of the then-history-making candidate paired with the words "Hope," meant to signal a change in the nation's political life.  

In , soon after the election of Pope Francis — another outsider figure — similar images appeared swapping out images of the president with that of the new maverick pontiff.

Now, that same title has been chosen for the pope's newly released autobiography, which hit bookstores in some 80 countries this week. 

Hope: The Autobiography, written in conjunction with Italian publisher Carlo Musso, is being billed as the first ever memoir by a sitting pope. 

But Hope is less autobiography than it is an aggregation of already existing stories, interviews, speeches and history that are already known about the nowyear-old pontiff.

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