Word: xxiii
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...intense new Pope labored in the shadow of his jovial, grandfatherly predecessor, Pope John XXIII. It was John's revolution that he inherited, with John's open, hopeful stamp of approval upon it. In the years that followed, the movement that John called aggiornamento, or modernization, became part of a revolution larger than John had foreseen-a tumultuous moral and social upheaval around the world. Both inside and outside the church, old values were questioned, traditional authority challenged...
...priest assigned to his first parish. To combat the influence of the Communists, he said Mass in factories, mines, jails and workers' homes. He commissioned priests to conduct street-corner crusades. He built scores of new churches in the working-class suburbs that ring the city. Pope John XXIII named Montini a Cardinal in 1958, and Montini reportedly had a hand in John's keynote address at the opening of the Second Vatican Council, which encouraged the church "ever to look to the present, to new conditions and new forms of life...
...however, contrast Pope Paul's style with that of his predecessor, Pope John XXIII. John "had a very deep, religious, rather than Church-political, view of the Church," he said. He added that he would be "much more comfortable" if the next Pope shares John's "more religious" approach, rather than Paul's "less obviously spiritually-based" style of leadership...
...with it came the doubts of a struggling Church and the frightening burden of succeeding a man the world had come to think of as a saint. At first it did not seem the scholarly Archbishop of Milan would be equal to the challenge laid down by Pope John XXIII and the Second Vatican Council; yet when the roaring crowds greeted Paul in New York in 1965, they hailed a man who had let the "fresh air" into the Church with a wondrous combination of skill and piety. The man was called a peacemaker, a reformer, a voice of sanity...
DIED. Luigi Cardinal Traglia, 82, dean of the Sacred College of Cardinals; in Rome. After the death of Pope John XXIII, Traglia was widely mentioned as a possible successor. The Pro-Vicar General of Rome (1965-68), he was the city's principal ordaining bishop and responsible for the seal of ecclesiastical approval bestowed on all books published in Rome that fall within the church's authority. Celebrated for his erudition, Traglia was known in Vatican circles as "the living archive...