{"id":7030,"date":"2025-05-13T11:19:36","date_gmt":"2025-05-13T16:19:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.tsl.texas.gov\/texastalkingbooks\/?p=7030"},"modified":"2025-05-13T11:19:36","modified_gmt":"2025-05-13T16:19:36","slug":"pope-francis","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.tsl.texas.gov\/texastalkingbooks\/2025\/05\/13\/pope-francis\/","title":{"rendered":"In His Own Words: Pope Francis"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Born Jorge Mario Bergoglio on December 17, 1936, in Buenos Aires, Argentina, Pope Francis was the first pope from the Society of Jesus. He was also the first Latin American pope, the first from the Americas, the first from the Southern Hemisphere, and the first born or raised outside of Europe since the eighth century. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Elected as the successor to Pope Benedict XVI in 2013, he chose Francis as his papal name in honor of Saint Francis of Assisi. He served until his death on April 21 at age 88.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Below is his autobiography in English and Spanish.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><strong>English Titles<\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-table\"><table class=\"has-fixed-layout\"><tbody><tr><td>HOPE: THE AUTOBIOGRAPHY by Pope Francis (DB 127574 IN PROCESS)<\/td><\/tr><tr><td>LIFE: MY STORY THROUGH HISTORY by Pope Francis (DB 121667, LB 0000142)<\/td><\/tr><\/tbody><\/table><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><strong>Spanish Titles<\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">VIDA: MI HISTORIA A TRAV\u00c9S DE LA HISTORIA por Papa Francisco con Fabio Marchese Ragona; traducci\u00f3n de Ana Romeral Moreno (DB 121748)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Born Jorge Mario Bergoglio on December 17, 1936, in Buenos Aires, Argentina, Pope Francis was the first pope from the Society of Jesus. He was also the first Latin American pope, the first from the Americas, the first from the &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tsl.texas.gov\/texastalkingbooks\/2025\/05\/13\/pope-francis\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":18,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_s2mail":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[220,222,37],"tags":[506,55,970,4,9],"class_list":["post-7030","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-book-lists","category-news-announcements","category-readers-advisory-2","tag-book-lists","tag-in-their-own-words","tag-pope-francis","tag-reader-advisory","tag-readers-advisory"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tsl.texas.gov\/texastalkingbooks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7030","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tsl.texas.gov\/texastalkingbooks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tsl.texas.gov\/texastalkingbooks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tsl.texas.gov\/texastalkingbooks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/18"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tsl.texas.gov\/texastalkingbooks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7030"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.tsl.texas.gov\/texastalkingbooks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7030\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7031,"href":"https:\/\/www.tsl.texas.gov\/texastalkingbooks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7030\/revisions\/7031"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tsl.texas.gov\/texastalkingbooks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7030"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tsl.texas.gov\/texastalkingbooks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7030"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tsl.texas.gov\/texastalkingbooks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7030"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}