Greg Tobin
The Good Pope: The Making of a Saint and the Remaking of the Church – The Story of John XXIII and Vatican II (Hardbound)
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 council—the first such council in more than a century—to bring the Catholic…
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