New works by Pope Francis, books on spirituality, previously unpublished editions of Benedict XVI and powerful testimonies of faith. Vatican City, Tuesday 8 October β The Vatican Publishing House will participate from 16 to 20 October at the Frankfurt Buchmesse , whose guest of honour this year is Italy, with various editorial novelties.
Spes non confundit , the official text of the proclamation of the Ordinary Jubilee of the year , in which the Pope illustrates the urgency of recovering the Christian virtue of hope, will be available in Frankfurt. Meditations for Pilgrims and Wayfarers , a book of reflections on the value of being a person on a journey in one's faith experience. The theme of hope is very significant in the touching book La lama e la croce.
The text, the result of research in Alto Adige, Austria and Germany, is striking for its message of civil resistance and Christian witness, and has been warmly received by readers. Alongside these titles, an original and relevant book by Francis attesting to his deep interest in reading and writers is La letteratura, secondo me.
Avvento, Quaresima, Pasqua. Advent, Lent, Easter. For a synodal spirituality , by the Dominican Timothy Radcliffe, who will be created a cardinal by Pope Francis in the Consistory this coming 8 December, and La memoria genera future.
Scienza e fede a difesa della casa comune The good alliance. This latter, with a preface by Pope Francis, is a shining testimony of faith and love in the darkness of American prisons. It is the story of a Wall Street lawyer and father, who turned his existence upside-down by passing from the world of finance to that of prisons, becoming a spiritual accompanier to prisoners facing the death penalty in Florida.
