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John XXIII

NOUN
  1. Italian pope from 1958 to 1963 who convoked the Second Vatican Council (1881-1963)

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  • I first used them in an essay on Pope John XXIII, who believed the Church was like a ship that belonged at sea - not harboured in safe havens.
  • To many people, John XXIII was the Kennedy pope, and Vatican II was his Camelot a glorious, Roman Catholic version of the New Deal and the New Frontier that would move Catholicism from the medieval past into a rosy future of social equality, in which mass would be celebrated in the vernacular, nuns' habits would be modernized, and the popemobile would replace the traditional gestatorial chair as a form of papal transportation. Philocrites: May 2005 Archives
  • He will buried in the tomb left vacant after the remains of Pope John XXIII were exhumed from the cramped grotto under St. Peter's Basilica in 2001 and moved to the main floor following his beatification. USATODAY.com - Bells, white smoke to announce new pope
  • When Pope John XXIII condemned the Bohemian Reformer John Hus to the flames as a heretic, at the Council of Constance in 1415, he also anathematised the Englishman John Wyclif.
  • The good Monsignor's comments on the rushed putting together of the 'restored' Holy Week are fascinating - even more so John XXIII's insistence on having the traditional Vexilla regis sung on Good Friday. A bombshell of an interview. Mons. Domenico Bartolucci on the liturgical reforms and the reform of the reform.
  • In 1761 Clement XIII approved his beatification; John XXIII canonized him in 1960.
  • Less than a hundred days into his pontificate, the new Pope John XXIII startled most of the world by announcing his intention to convoke an ecumenical council.
  • John XXIII connived to ensure that Czech reformer Jan Hus was burned at the stake—even as his own position became insecure. How the Secular World Began
  • I first used them in an essay on Pope John XXIII, who believed the Church was like a ship that belonged at sea - not harboured in safe havens.
  • Pope John XXIII, we learn at length, had a passion for Alessandro Manzoni's novel "I Promessi Sposi" (which Wills horribly translates as "The Plighted Couple" ", hen the book is widely known as" The Betrothed "). Take Me To Your Leader
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