The Pope on the Nativity Part 3 am hoping to make this my last
post on the short book about the Nativity of Jesus by Pope
Benedict XVI (Joseph Ratzinger). So far, from what I can tell, I
have been one of the few bloggers going through and being
critical of its historical contents, which I will continue here.
For background, my first post looked at the apparent lack of
engagement with the best literature on the subject of Jesus’
birth, including Raymond Brown’s Birth of the Messiah. My second
post looked at the arguments His Holiness used to defend the
historicity of certain details of the Gospel(s) version(s) of
the birth of Christ and how his own arguments were not correctly
applied.  As for the rest of the blogosphere, here is what I
have found around the Internet:  Jim West highlights a news
report about the book and how the Pope says Jesus was not born
in 0 AD; Jim asks so what else is new? A similar feeling can by
seen with Sonja of Women in Theology who found this volume
boring compared to the prior two