Pope John XXIII
Pope John XXIII
Pope Saint John XXIIIborn Angelo Giuseppe Roncalli, Italian pronunciation: ; 25 November 1881 – 3 June 1963) reigned as Pope from 28 October 1958 to his death in 1963 and was canonized on 27 April 2014. Angelo Giuseppe Roncalli was the fourth of fourteen children born to a family of sharecroppers who lived in a village in Lombardy. He was ordained to the priesthood on 10 August 1904 and served in a number of posts, including papal nuncio in France and a delegate to...
NationalityItalian
ProfessionClergyman
Date of Birth25 November 1881
CountryItaly
The nations of the world are becoming more and more dependent on one another and it will not be possible to preserve a lasting peace so long as glaring economic and social imbalances persist.
The whole world is my family.
Today the universal common good poses problems of world-wide dimensions, which cannot be adequately tackled or solved except by the efforts of public authorities endowed with a wideness of powers, structure and means of the same proportions; that is... on a world-wide basis.
We supplicate all rulers not to remain deaf to the cry of mankind. Let them do everything in their power to save peace. By so doing they will spare the world the horrors of a war that would have disastrous consequences, such as nobody can foresee.
Whoever has a heart full of love always has something to give.
Here I am at the end of the road and at the top of the heap.
The true and solid peace of nations consists not in equality of arms, but in mutual trust alone.
The deposit of the faith is one thing... the way it is expressed is another.
Prudent is he who can keep silent that part of truth which may be untimely, and by not speaking it, does not spoil the truth of what he said.
The solidarity which binds all men together as members of a common family makes it impossible for wealthy nations to look with indifference upon the hunger, misery and poverty of other nations whose citizens are unable to enjoy even elementary human rights. The nations of the world are becoming more and more dependent on one another and it will not be possible to preserve a lasting peace so long as glaring economic and social imbalances persist.
The Rosary is a magnificent and universal prayer for the needs of the Church, the nations and the entire world.
The social progress, order, security and peace of each country are necessarily connected with the social progress, order, security and peace of all other countries.
I am able to follow my own death step by step. Now I move softly towards the end.
The feelings of my smallness and my nothingness always kept me good company.