Pope's new book to hit Italian stores

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Canada.com
Wednesday, February 16, 2005

ROME -- Pope John Paul's latest book, Memory and Identity: Conversations Between Millenniums, will go on sale in Italy on Feb. 23, the publishing house Rizzoli said Wednesday.

The Pope's fifth book is essentially a transcript of conversations he had in Polish with his close friends political philosopher Krzysztof Michalski and the late Rev. Jozef Tishner in 1993 at his summer residence near Rome. The book's question-answer format takes a look at Europe over the last 100 years, seeking to identify the "roots of evil" such as the rise of communism, fascism and Nazism, and tackling major issues such as the relationship between church and state.

The Pope's first book, Crossing the Threshold of Hope, came out a decade ago and sold 20 million copies as an international best seller. Rizzoli International was expected to release Memory and Identity soon.
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