Benedict XVI “did not write a four-handed book with Cardinal Sarah”. After the embarrassment, the words of a source very close to Ratzinger filter in the evening from the Vatican. Words that change everything. The book “From the bottom of our heart”, which comes out tomorrow in France, is already debating: the Pope emeritus says in the introduction “I cannot keep silent” and asks the successor Francis not to allow the priestly ordination of married men proposed by the Synod on the Amazon? In Ratzinger’s entourage there is talk of an “evident editorial and media operation, from which Benedict calls himself out and is totally foreign”.
The book is so divided: a note by the editor Nicolas Diat, introduction and conclusion by the “two authors” and in the middle an essay by Benedict XVI on “the Catholic priesthood” and another by Sarah against any opening. But from the Monastery it is explained that “Benedict XVI was writing a note on the priesthood several months ago and Sarah asked him to see it: the Pope Emeritus made it available to him knowing that he was writing a book on the priesthood”. He read the text but “did not see or approve the cover, nor to release a four-handed volume”. He will ask for the printed editions to be changed, signing only his contribution.
© RESERVED REPRODUCTION
