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The Universal Parish Priest

Author: Robinson, Josephine Year: 2008
Publisher: Catholic Truth Society UK Pages: 72
Binding: A6 Paperback
Code: B692 Series: Biographies
Dimension: 105 x 148

Angelo Roncalli, intelligent, modest, joyful and from the humblest of origins, became Pope aged 78. Yet his short papacy (1958-1963) inaugurated the most significant event in Church life for centuries: the Vatican Council II. The moving spiritual journey told here - his ambitions and failures, his family and the years overseas as a papal representative - reveal the gentle heart of a true pastor.