John XXIII

Massimo Faggioli is professor of historical and contemporary ecclesiology at the Loyola Institute at Trinity College Dublin and the School of Religion, Theology, and Peace Studies, and a contributing editor for Commonweal. He is an internationally-established scholar in the area of Vatican II and the papacy especially, and a renowned public commentator on church affairs. Among his books with Liturgical Press are The Legacy and Limits of Vatican II in an Age of Crisis (2025); True Reform: Liturgy and Ecclesiology in Sacrosanctum Concilium (2012); Pope John XXIII: The Medicine of Mercy (2014); and Sorting Out Catholicism: A Brief History of the New Ecclesial Movements (2014).

• ContentsAbbreviations   viiAcknowledgments   xiIntroduction   1Chapter OneThe Young Angelo Giuseppe (1881–1904)   11Chapter TwoDangerous Times: Antimodernism, World War, and Curia Politics (1905–1924)   29Chapter ThreeLearning from the East: Papal Diplomat in Bulgaria and Turkey (1925–1944)   51Chapter FourBetween the “Exile” and the Final Ascent: France and Venice (1945–1958)   79Chapter FiveA Pope of Temporary Transition with a Robust Program: Rome (1958–1963)   105 ConclusionJohn XXIII: Medicine of Mercy and Signs of the Times   133Selected Bibliography   141Index   147

“Faggioli has delved deeply into his subject and come away with a sensitive understanding of St. John XXIII as a man of his times and as an icon owned, in a sense, by the wider world. Writing this book has obviously been a labor of love for its author—one of the finest historians of modern Catholicism and one of the sharpest interpreters of the Catholicism in the today's world.”            James McCartin            Center on Religion and Culture            Fordham University