The Good Pope: The Making of a Saint and the Remaking of the Church--The Story of John XXIII and Vatican II by Greg Tobin

The Good Pope: The Making of a Saint and the Remaking of the Church--The Story of John XXIII and Vatican II

Greg Tobin

293 pages • first pub 2012 (editions)

nonfiction biography religion dark mysterious tense medium-paced
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On November 23, 1958, Cardinal Angelo Giuseppe Roncalli, the son of peasant Italian farmers, became Pope John XXIII. Widely expected to be a transitional pope, John surprised the Church hierarchy and the world by convoking an ambitious ecumenical ...

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