Pope John XXIII is both an icon and a Rorschach test. For virtually all who remember him, he is revered as a good and holy man who was as warm as Pius XII was aloof, a man who visited the Roman prisons, received the archbishop of Canterbury, and welcomed Jewish visitors to the Vatican with the greeting, "I am your brother." For many, he remains the embodiment of all that is g (...)
March 10, 2000
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Journal of a SoulThe Autobiography of Pope John XXIIIImage/Doubleday, $14.95, 453 pp.
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