New book compiles Benedict XVI's catecheses on St. Paul

Benedict XVI’s catecheses on St. Paul have been gathered in a book with images of the apostle from different museums around the world. The presentation of the book was organized by the St. Anselm Association and took place on Tuesday, June 30th in Rome.Cardinal Giovanni Lajolo, President of the Governorate of Vatican City State, presented the book in the St. Pius X Auditorium, which was recently restored. The director of the Vatican publishing house, Fr Giuseppe Costa explained that twenty international publishing houses have already requested the book.“Thirty thousand volumes were published in Italian however the book has been consigned to twenty international publishing houses.”During his intervention, Cardinal Lajolo highlighted the style of the Pope’s catecheses.“Whereas St Paul’s language is often similar to an impetuous river, the Pope’s language is always fluent, limpid and clear, so that we may easily grasp the superabundant richness of Paul’s thought.”Cardinal Lajolo also emphasized the importance of Pauline Christology in the Pope’s catecheses and defined the book as a “consonant whole” result of the pontiff’s “carefully prepared programme”.Cardinal Andrea Cordero Lanza di Montezemolo, who wrote the introduction to the book underlined that the Pope insisted in expressing the figure of St. Paul through comprehensible language.“He did not lose the opportunity to recall, interpret and present difficult aspects of St. Paul in a simple manner.”

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