The only thing I had heard about the Pope’s new book on the infancy of Jesus was that the ox and ass in Nativity scenes had been declared a myth. This turns out not to be so.
Jesus of Nazareth: the Infancy Narratives was published in America last week and comes out here on Tuesday (Burns & Oates, £12.99). I’d been looking forward to this completion of Benedict XVI’s three volumes on the life of Jesus. I wasn’t disappointed.
