Benedict’s Productive Vacations
Now that Pope Benedict XVI has started his annual vacation, don’t expect much news out of the Vatican over the next few weeks.
This doesn’t mean that the Pope will be idle while he’s vacationing in northern Italy, or afterward when he spends the next several weeks at his summer residence in Castel Gandolfo. In previous years, the Holy Father has dedicated time in the summer to writing his 2007 book, Jesus of Nazareth, and to the companion volume to that book that he reportedly plans to publish, as well as to working on his just-released social encyclical, Caritas in Veritate (Charity in Truth).
It has also become something of a tradition for Benedict to meet with diocesan priests during his vacation and to conduct a question-and-answer session with them. Here’s a link to the Vatican transcript of the first such meeting in 2005.
