Pope Francis is to publish his first autobiography on Tuesday March 19th – entitled ‘Life: My Story Through History‘

In mostly his own words it will tell the story of his family origins as immigrants to Argentina in the early 20th century, his life as a Jesuit priest and of his own intellectual evolution as an apostle of ‘synodality’ – his dream of the whole church consciously ‘on mission’.

It will tell also of his dislike for the ‘splendour of palaces’ – where ‘manoeuvres’ happen – and his intention not to resign unless he becomes completely incapacitated.

And if that does happen, he says, his title will not be ‘Pope Emeritus’ but ‘Bishop Emeritus of Rome’.

For an expanded ‘heads up’ on the pope’s autobiography in La Croix International click here