Word: xxiii
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...Burgess still works with the passionate speed of a condemned man. Right now he has three new novels in the works: an espionage thriller in a "super-James Bond vein," a biographical fiction based on his pianist father's musical career, and a novel devoted to Pope John XXIII, about whom Burgess, a strict English Catholic, is highly critical. Soon to be published is the third and concluding volume of the Enderby novels, the story of a poet who loses and then regains his creative gift, generally regarded as one of Burgess's finest literary accomplishments. There...
...Christianity's behalf, the report reminded readers that Pope John XXIII and Pope Paul had put forth a similar system of social thought in their encyclicals Pacem in terris and Populorum progressio. The papal social doctrines, the article suggested, "must have come to the notice of the Peking leaders who may find in them the best evidence that religion, and Christianity in particular, is not a leechlike superstition but a genuine servant of man and, therefore, also of Chinese...
SUNDAY: Portrait: A Man Whose Name Was John. Raymond Burr stars as Pope John XXIII in this Easter inspirational about saving little Jewish children from the Nazis. CH. 5. 8 p.m. Color...
Still he is intensely critical of the church as institution and of almost all its tortured developments of the past 20 years. At the center of the book is a long essay on "the two Johns"-Pope John XXIII and President Kennedy. In these men, Wills argues, "liberals at last got the kind of leaders they thought would suffice, and found that this was not enough." Kennedy's concept of "flexible response" led to the most intractable of wars. The Second Vatican Council, initiated by Pope John, began by concentrating on liturgical reform but soon unleashed a flood...
...divorced Peter Townsend, and shocked millions by asserting that man's nuclear destruction might be God's will. Despite his critical attitude toward Roman Catholic dogmatism, Fisher was an ardent ecumenist and made a precedent-setting visit in 1960 to Rome, where he met with Pope John XXIII...