Pope John XXIII: .: . - Brossura

Cahill, Thomas

Brossura

ISBN 10: 0753817039 ISBN 13: 9780753817032

Casa editrice: Phoenix, 2003

Riassunto

Angelo Guiseppe Roncalli was an unexpected choice to follow the ultra conservative Pope Pius XII in 1958. At seventy-six years old, 'a fat old man with twinkling eyes and a seductively resonant voice', neither a well-known public figure nor a highly trained theologian, he was at first regarded as a transitional pope. During his brief but unforgettable reign as Pope John XXIII, however, he astonished the world with the seminal and unprecedented change he brought about in the Catholic Church. He was a deeply political man and played an important part on the world stage, helping to defuse the Cuban missile crisis of 1963. He also rewrote litury to avoid any crude condemnation of the Jews, tens of thousands of whom he had saved from the Holocaust when he was an apostolic administrator in Turkey.

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Recensione

'A brilliant blend of imagincation and scholarship.' (GOOD BOOK GUIDE (1.2.04) )

L'autore

Thomas Cahill is the former director of religious publishing at Doubleday. He and his wife, Susan Cahill, a novelist and anthologist, divide their time between New York and Rome. They have two children, a daughter who is a teacher in Oakland, California, and a son who is a filmmaker in Prague.

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• Editore: Phoenix
• Data di pubblicazione: 2003
• ISBN 10: 0753817039
• ISBN 13: 9780753817032
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile
• Numero di pagine: 288