I’ve read large portions of Peter Seewald’s new book-length interview with Pope Benedict XVI, Light of the World: The Pope, The Church and The Signs Of The Times. Seewald’s questions are on some of the most contentious issues of the day (as well as any day). B16 is candid.

The media treatment of the book, which comes out Tuesday, thus far is incomplete and misleading. If these weren’t such life-and-death issues, essentials in making or breaking lives, it would just be a familiar story. But it’s a shameful outrage that people are walking around today believing the pope announced some historic change on Catholic sexual morality in a far-reaching interview. He didn’t.

More to come on this.