Who is Pope John XXIII?

Angelo Giuseppe Roncalli was born November 25, 1881. In October 1958, a conclave was held to elect a new pope following Pope Pius XII’s passing. After eleven votes, the outsider who had spent years in Catholic backwaters procured the two-thirds support needed to become pope, and subsequently chose the name, John XXIII. Pope John XXIII helped set the tone with his embracement of the idea of aggiornamento, Italian for updating or modernizing, so that the Church would be more positive and forward-looking than in previous decades. While Vatican II was Pope John XXIII’s most important act as Pope, he also wrote an important encyclical, or teaching document, Pacem in Terris in 1963, which argued for nuclear non-proliferation, and urged nations to work towards world peace. Pope John XXIII was exceptionally popular among both Catholics and non-Catholics, and, as a result, was named Time magazine’s ”Man of the Year” in 1962.

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