In this new, deeply personal autobiography, published January 15, Pope Francis does not reveal new information but instead retraces the encounters that shaped his early years and his family's history.

The book, which was six years in the making, vividly recreates Francis’ childhood in Buenos Aires but offers few new insights into his papacy.

Growing up in a multicultural neighbourhood in the 1940s, the boy who would become Pope witnessed drugs, prostitutes... and devout joy

Pope Francis' predecessor, Benedict XVI, handed him a large white box containing several confidential documents related to the "most difficult and painful situations" involving the Vatican.

An introspective Pope Francis has divulged some of the behind-the-scenes dynamics of the secret 2013 conclave that elected him pope and the resistance he has encountered ever since, in his autobiography being released Tuesday that also doubles down on some of his more controversial decisions as pontiff.