Pope Benedict Talks On Church Fathers On Sale Today

At Least in Italy!!

Wow I do want this book. I look forward to Pope Benedict's Wednesday Audience each week. Of course on can find the full text of all these talks at the Vatican Web site for free here and here . However it will be nice to have Part I of this series all under one cover. Hopefully soon it will be available in the United States. The Ratzinger Forum has translated the following.

BENEDICT XVI ON 'THE FATHERS OF THE CHURCH: FROM CLEMENT THE ROMAN TO SAINT AUGUSTINE':

22 publishers in 11 nations already want translation rights

The book published by the Vatican publishing house goes on sale in Italy starting today but already there's a great demand for it... In fact, the LEV site still does not contain an entry about the book at all!

VATICAN CITY, June 23 (Translated from Apcom) -

Twenty-two publishing houses in 11 countries have already bid for translation and publication rights abroad of Benedict XVI's new book I Padri della Chiesa: Da Clemente Romano a Sant'Agostino which is a collection of the first part of the Holy Father's ongoing catechetical cycle on the Fathers of the Church. The 238-page volume, published by Libreria Editrice Vaticana, contains a gallery of 26 portraits dedicated to the most outstanding Christian authors and teachers in teh first five centuries of Christianity. A note form LEV says: "Through the words of the Pope, the Fathers hand down to us, Christians of the third millennium, the Gospel of salvation which shaped their hearts and their lives, so that faith, hope and love may win over the resistances of the world." The book goes on sale in Italy today at 14 euro.