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Article: THE WHAT IFS OF JOHN XXIII
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- The Record (Bergen County, NJ)
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- February 10, 2002
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THE WHAT IFS OF JOHN XXIII
By CHARLES AUSTIN, Staff Writer
Date: 02-10-2002, Sunday
Section: LIFESTYLE / ENTERTAINMENT
Edition: All Editions -- Sunday
Pope John XXIII, by Thomas Cahill; Viking Penguin, 241 pages, $19.95.
The image of the most revolutionary pope of the last 100 years,
Angelo Roncalli -- the jovial, plump Italian peasant who became Pope
John
XXIII and revolutionized the Roman Catholic Church by calling the
Second
Vatican Council -- has been almost submerged under the long and
differently charismatic reign of John Paul II.
Had he served longer than five years (1958-1963), there is no doubt
that the open, collegial, and reconciling personality of ...