Jorge Mario Bergoglio – papież Franciszek o nadziei chrześcijańskiej
Jorge Mario Bergoglio – Pope Francis on Christian Hope

Summary/Abstract: As Pope Francis has linked the Ordinary Jubilee of the Year 2025 with the word “hope,” the article aims to present the broader context of this term and the holistic understanding of it found in the teaching of the Argentine Jesuit who became Pope. The analysis is based on numerous statements made by the Holy Father, especially a series of his catecheses on hope, delivered between Advent 2016 and Christ the King Sunday 2017. These statements were complemented by those delivered by Jorge Mario Bergoglio during his ministry as priest, bishop, and then cardinal in Argentina. In this way, the article illustrates the continuity of the Pope’s thought, and offers a new, more complete presentation of Christian hope by the 266th Pontiff. The hermeneutic of hope conveyed by the Argentinian Pope is essentially existential and vital, biblical and theological. Following the Second Vatican Council, it draws attention to the “signs of the times” that should be transformed into signs of hope. The article is also an attempt to present the papal teaching on hope not only in a historical, but also in a systematic, perspective.

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