Hope Never Disappoints

This is a spiritual guide that will consciously prepare us for the Holy Year of the 2025 Jubilee, capable of enveloping us in a spirit of solidarity; it is a call from the Pope to look with renewed confidence at the challenges that await us and to walk together along a path of joy and fraternity, towards a future where we can find hope.

May we learn to live as “pilgrims of hope”: this is what Pope Francis proposes to us as the 2025 Jubilee approaches, a historic event that, if properly lived, can represent a unique opportunity for renewal for Humanity, precisely in times of instability, disaster, and widespread fear. All around us, the outlook is bleak: wars, poverty, hunger, environmental catastrophes, social tensions.

The world seems dark, but even so, we cannot allow this to paralyze us, to lead us to resignation. We cannot give up hope; after all, if we look closely, it is in everything that surrounds us: in the face of a woman carrying a new life in her womb, in the countenance of a poor person, a migrant, or a refugee seeking a better future, in the eyes of a soldier and a civilian praying to return to their homes, or in the image of an elderly person and a child walking hand in hand, free and safe.

All these are, according to Pope Francis, the faces of hope, and become, in this work, a starting point to reflect on family and education, on the social, political, and economic landscape, on geopolitics and migration, on the environmental crisis, new technologies, and peace.