I’d contracted with OSV to write a pamphlet on Benedict’s forthcoming third encyclical ages ago, when a summer ’08 release date was assumed. We’re still waiting, aren’t we?
The word that’s come to me is that the encyclical is being “rewritten.” Just in the past day, the date given for the Ignatius edition of the encyclical listed on Amazon has been changed from September 30 to April 15, 2009.
Vaticanistas, what’s the story?

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