” “"Seemingly new discoveries, which are supposed to reveal an entirely different story about Jesus of Nazareth, are endlessly put for sale on the public market of the media". This was denounced today by card. Christoph Schönborn, archbishop of Vienna, at the press conference for the presentation of the new book written by the Pope, "Jesus of Nazareth", out next Monday, April 16th, the day of his 80th birthday. The "biblical and ecclesial representation of the figure of Jesus", replied Schönborn, is not "a priestly fraud or a trick of the Church", nor is the "truth" about Jesus "choked down by dark conspirators, mostly living in the Vatican". "Proving the historical reliability of the Gospels and their images of God" is instead the main goal of Benedict XVI’s book, specified the Austrian Cardinal, according to whom "the countless fanciful images of Jesus as a revolutionary, as a moderate reformer, as the secret lover of the Magdalene and so on, can be easily put to rest in the ossuary of history". "After all, all of the book concluded Schönborn is one single symphonic attempt at proving the consistency of the figure of Jesus" through a "universal look at society, at the intellectual, social, political challenges of our age".” “
