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New Book Pope Benedict XVI will be presented March 10 at the Vatican





The Vatican confirmed today that the second part of the book "Jesus of Nazareth" by Pope Benedict XVI, will be presented on March 10 in the "Aula Juan Pablo II" in the press office of the Holy See.

Vatican City. EFE .-

The book will be presented to five p.m. (16.00 gmt) by Cardinal Marc Ouellet, prefect of the Congregation for Bishops, and the Italian writer Claudio Magris.

This second volume is devoted to the passion, death and resurrection of Christ, the most decisive moments in the life of Jesus, as Pope Ratzinger.

In volume, Benedict XVI elaborates on the death of Christ, the resurrection, about why he was convicted, who were to blame for his death, etc.

The volume is published by the Libreria Editrice Vaticana (LEV), which has all copyrights of Benedict XVI, and will go on sale in Italy (300,000 copies for the first edition, distributed by Rizzoli), Spain (Editorial Meeting) Germany (Herder), USA (Ignatius Press) and other countries.

As reported last July, the Vatican spokesman, Federico Lombardi, the pope is entering as the third part of the book, dedicated to Jesus' childhood and the beginning of his preaching.

The first part of "Jesus of Nazareth", 448 pages, was submitted by the Vatican on April 13, 2007. In it, the pontiff was a Jesus "real, historic" and said that Christ is a figure "historically sensible and convincing." EFE