Pope's 3rd encyclical due May 1st

"The Pope's third encyclical" (Rorate Caeli, February 28, 2008): "Ignacio Ingrao, Vatican affairs journalist for Italian weekly Panorama, reports:

Six months after Spe Salvi, the Pope publishes his third encyclical. The document should bear the date of May 1st, feast of Saint Joseph the Worker. It will be a social encyclical ....

The document is divided in two parts. In the first one, the Pope recalls the encyclicals Populorum progressio, of Paul VI, and Centesimus annus, of John Paul II; in the second part, [he] assesses the great challenges of our time.

"Tip and source: Papa Ratzinger blog."

[Hat tip to Rorate Caeli]