In the book, Pope Francis also talks about his grandparents in Italy, the films and songs that have accompanied him, abortion, surrogacy or the reception of homosexuals in the Church, about Pope Benedict XVI; as well as Diego Armando Maradona, Lionel Messi and his passion for football.
He also remembers the dictatorship in his homeland, Argentina, where he hid three seminarians, who with him took in “other young people at risk like them, at least twenty in two years” and his role in the release of two Jesuits kidnapped by the regime.
In the late 1970s and early 1980s, the military dictatorship of Jorge Rafael Videla took place in Argentina, whose regime kidnapped the priests Orlando Yorio and Francisco Jalics, whom Father Jorge Mario Bergoglio, then superior of the Jesuits, from Argentina, helped free.
What happened was filed as “the Yorio-Jalics Case” and was used by some during the mandate of the now former president Cristina Fernández de Kirchner to attack the one who would later be Archbishop of Buenos Aires, Cardinal Jorge Mario Bergoglio, as an accomplice of the regime, something which has been proven not true.