Collection of homilies by late Pope Benedict XVI to be published

The Vatican will publish a collection of private homilies delivered by the late Pope Benedict XVI (Gregorio Borgia/AP/PA)

The Vatican is to publish a collection of never-before-seen homilies delivered by the late Pope Benedict XVI during his private Sunday Masses, most of them penned during his 10-year retirement, officials have said.

The consecrated women who tended to Benedict during his pontificate and retirement recorded the homilies as he delivered them and have now transcribed them for publication by the Vatican’s publishing house next year.