Pope's new Book is on the Way

Translators working on pope's new book; publication still months away

By Catholic News Service

VATICAN CITY (CNS) -- Pope Benedict XVI has handed his editors the final draft of the second volume of his book, "Jesus of Nazareth," but it will be months before the work is translated from German and published, the Vatican said May 10.

"This second volume is dedicated to the Passion and the Resurrection, and takes up where the first volume ended," the Vatican press office said in a statement.

The first volume of the work was published in the spring of 2007 and covered Jesus' life from his baptism to his transfiguration. In the United States, the English translation was published by Doubleday.

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