A Good Life: 15 Essential Habits for Living with Hope and Joy

The beloved spiritual leader's reflections--fifteen timeless habits for living with purpose, resilience, and joy. In A Good Life, Pope Francis offers one of his most personal and enduring works--a wise, accessible, and deeply human guide to the daily habits that shaped his life and can transform yours. Drawn from a lifetime of spiritual leadership, this book presents fifteen essential practices that sustained him through decades of ministry, global crisis, and private trials. This is not a list of abstract virtues or lofty theology. These are real, lived habits--things like gratitude, simplicity, mercy, connection, and spiritual attentiveness--that anyone can begin to adopt, no matter their background or beliefs. With signature humility and directness, Francis writes not from a pedestal, but from a place of shared humanity, inviting readers to rediscover the sacred in the ordinary. Completed shortly before his passing, A Good Life is more than a book--it's a legacy. It's an offering