Wednesday, April 04, 2007

Pope's Book Due April 16th.

Pope Benedict's book, Jesus of Nazareth, will be available for sale in Italy on April 16, the Pontiff's 80th birthday, the Vatican has announced.

Vatican officials will introduce the Pope's work to reporters at a Vatican press conference on April 13.

The book will then be available on the following Monday in an Italian-language edition; the Vatican has not yet disclosed when the English translation will be available.

This will be the first book written by the Pope since his election in April 2005.

He began the work last summer, and the work has reportedly consumed his spare time since that start.

Prior to his election as Pontiff, then-Cardinal Ratzinger wrote numerous works on theology.

Pope Benedict has indicated that the book is a personal effort-- not an authoritative doctrinal statement-- which he has undertaken because he is concern about growing confusion on the identity of Jesus, both within and outside the Church. He began writing this summer.

The 10-chapter book to be published next week covers the public life of Jesus from the time of his baptism in the Jordan to the Transfiguration.

The Holy Father explains in his preface that while he plans to continue the work, he decided to publish what he had completed to date because he does not know "how much time and how much strength" he has to continue the project.

In an excerpt from the forthcoming book, published by the Italian daily Corriere della Sera, the Pope appeals to the developed world to provide more material and spiritual help for Africa, describing that continent as an embodiment of the “wounds” created by “the cynicism of a world without God, in which only power and profit count.”

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