Press Office: third volume of Jesus of Nazareth completed
(Vatican Radio) Pope Benedict XVI has finished the third volume of Jesus of Nazareth,
dedicated to the stories of Jesus’ infancy. A statement from the Press Office of the
Holy See explains that this third volume, which is the completion of the previous
two, is at present being translated from the original German into several languages
– including English.
The statement goes on to express the hope that the new
book will be translated contemporaneously into the most-spoken languages. The statement
further reports the expectation that all appropriate time will be taken to complete
the work of making accurate translations of the Pope’s important and highly anticipated
work.
Meanwhile speaking in Introd, Northern Italy, where he is passing a period
of rest, Vatican Secretary of State Cardinal Tarcisio Bertone said that there may
be a new encyclical from the Holy Father in the near future.
It would be the
fourth encyclical by Benedict XVI following Deus caritas est in 2005, Spe
salvi in 2007 and Caritas in veritate in 2009.