Vatican to publish homilies by Pope Benedict XVI
Pope Emeritus Benedict XVI sits in St. Peter's Basilica as he attends the ceremony marking the start of the Holy Year, at the Vatican in 2015. The Vatican next year will publish a collection of private homilies delivered by the late Pope Benedict XVI for his Sunday Masses, most of them penned during his 10-year retirement, officials said Saturday, Dec. 23, 2023.
(AP Photo/Gregorio Borgia, File)
ROME (AP) — The Vatican next year will publish a collection of never-before-seen homilies delivered by the late Pope Benedict XVI during his private Sunday Masses, most of them penned during his 10-year retirement, officials said Saturday.
The consecrated women who tended to Benedict during his pontificate and retirement recorded the homilies as he delivered them, and have now transcribed them for publication by the Vatican's publishing house.
Thirty of the homilies date from Benedict's pontificate, while around 100 more are from his retirement, said a statement from the publisher, the Joseph Ratzinger Foundation and the Vatican's communications office. All are in Italian, the German-born theologian's adopted language.
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