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...innocent and quite timid boy." And from the age of 14, in 1896, until a year before his death in 1963, Angelo Giuseppe Ron-call i kept a record of his thoughts and dreams on odd pieces of paper. Lovingly edited by his long-time personal secretary, Msgr. Loris Capovilla, Pope John XXIII's diary, titled The Journal of a Soul, was published in Rome. At 15, the Pope-to-be was already praying "more than anything else, for union with the separated churches"; at 21, as a seminarian, he mused: "Even if I were to become Pope, when...
Apparently the Pope did most of the talking-at least according to Monsignor Loris Capovilla, the Pope's private secretary...
...Capovilla told an audience in Assisi last week that after Aleksei Adzhubei had raised the question of diplomatic relations between Moscow and the Vatican, the Pope gave him a brief homily in reply. "You are a journalist," he said, "so you know the Bible and the progression of the work of Creation. You know that the Lord took six days for the work of Creation before coming to man. But as you know, the days of the Bible are not days but epochs, and the epochs of the Bible are very long...
John himself apparently felt the meeting might have been arranged by God. After the Russians left, Capovilla said, the Pope wrote in his diary: "It may be a delusion, or it may be a mysterious thread of Providence that I, as Pope, do not have the right to break...
Rest, and doctors' care, apparently brought the bleeding to a halt; but only for a few days. Early in the morning on May 26, the Pope awoke in agony and called weakly for help; the hemorrhages had begun again. His secretary, Monsignor Capovilla, summoned...