Christopher Blosser provides an excellent round-up of Benedict XVI news from the last week.

And…another book from Benedict coming soon? (Aside from the new one, linked at Blosser’s Blog…)

When it was clear that Pope John Paul II was dying, during the first week of Easter, then Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger was spending time at the Benedictine Monastery of Subiaco.

The real reason was not the award he was conferred with by the Prior, but that he was working on a book about St. Benedict and the way he evangelized Europe by means of evangelizing its culture, turning it not only into a Christian Continent…

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