Book: Pope John XXIII
By: Thomas Cahill (Penguin Lives, 240 pp.)
Concerning: The brief, progressive, wonderfully anomalous papacy of John XXIII (aka Angelo Roncalli), who initiated the Second Vatican Council, placed in the context of papal history. From the author of How The Irish Saved Civilization.
Quotation: "Just as banks can make people poor,
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