Word: angelo
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Symbol of Unity. As Pope, Angelo Roncalli took the name of John, partly because it reminded him of John the Baptist, the precursor of the Lord, and of the other John, the beloved disciple and evangelist. Montini's choice was equally significant. "The name is a program in itself," exclaimed one Vatican cleric. Clearly, Pope Paul intended to recall the great Apostle to the Gentiles, who, said the editor of L'Osservatore Romano, is "a symbol of ecumenical unity, venerated by Catholics, Protestants and Orthodox Christians." It was St. Paul who internationalized the early church; it was Paul...
...lesser nobility of Rome, John XXIII from the peasantry of northern Italy. Paul VI is a bourgeois Pope, born to the comforts of Italy's middle class. His birthplace was Concesio, a country village near Brescia in northern Italy (and about 40 miles from Sotto il Monte, where Angelo Roncalli was born). The Pope's father, Giorgio Montini, was a lawyer and crusading journalist; his progressive political and social views were inspired by Don Luigi Sturzo, a near-legendary priest and sociologist who was one of the founders of Italian Christian democracy. Until Mussolini's Fascism...
...Then-despite the encrusted structure and traditions of the Vatican-his heart and brain will become the church's heart and brain, and his past may well prove a poor way of judging his future. After all, no one in 1958 suspected that the amiable Patriarch of Venice, Angelo Roncalli, was going to change the course of history...
...John's white-painted bedroom, keeping watch with his doctors over the coma-stricken body on the simple brass bed, were the Pope's brothers and sister from Bergamo, and Monsignor Loris Capovilla, his secretary and confidant. And as Angelo Giuseppe Roncalli clung to the edge of life at the age of 81, men were already attempting to measure the greatness of this 261st successor of St. Peter as Bishop of Rome...
...Teuber is a highly competent Deputy: rigidly controlled, beautifully articulate. At times I found him a bit too conscientiously odious; Lord Angelo, I suspect, should not pick his teeth and ears or twitch his mouth quite so often. One must preserve the distinction between heartache and heartburn...