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Angelo Roncalli was elected Pope in 1958 and in four and a half years, through summoning the Second Vatican Council and putting in hand a major revision of the code of Canon Law, had transformed the Roman Catholic Church. Through his personality and teaching, and his initiatives with world leaders, he gave the papacy a new vision and set before the Catholic Church a new version of its mission to the world. Today many people throughout the world see Pope John XXIII as one of the twentieth-century's most loved and influential figures.
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Table of contents
- Contents
- Acknowledgements
- Preface
- Prologue: Introducing Angelo Roncalli
- 1 A village boyhood
- 2 A Counter-Reformation seminary
- 3 A Roman education
- 4 Into the whirlwind of Modernism
- 5 The Great War
- 6 Towards Propaganda and Fascism
- 7 Ten hard years in Bulgaria
- 8 The innocent suspect
- 9 God's consul
- 10 Difficult mission to France
- 11 The seasons of Venice
- 12 1958: the wide-open conclave
- 13 The first ninety days
- 14 The inspiration of the Council
- 15 The struggle for the Council
- 16 At home and in Rome
- 17 The Italian connection
- 18 Enter Augustin Bea
- 19 Getting on for eighty
- 20 The dress rehearsal
- 21 On the slopes of the sacred mountain
- 22 Sixty days to change the Church
- 23 Last will and testament
- 24 Eastertide
- Bibliography and sources
- Appendix: The Roman Curia
- Index
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