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October 11: POPE ST. JOHN XXIII: The Good Pope
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Pope St. John XXIII surprised a Roman prison by walking in on Christmas Eve to visit the inmates himself. Elected as an elderly caretaker pope, Angelo Roncalli instead threw open the windows of the Church by calling the Second Vatican Council, insisting the Church offer mercy rather than condemnation to the modern world. Each night he handed his worries to God directly in prayer before sleep, trusting that the weight of the whole Church wasn't really his to carry alone. "Lord, it's your Church. I'm going to sleep." Pope John's challenge doesn't have...
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Welcome back to the Catholic Sproust podcast, where we know that every day is a feast day. Today is October 11th, so join me for Pope St. John XXIII, the good Pope. The prison warden had been told to expect the Pope, but his only experience of Popes was of distant ceremonial figures, men who moved through carefully arranged crowds and
formal occasions. This Pope had announced with very little warning that he wanted to visit the prisoners. The day before Christmas 1958, Pope John XXIII walked into the Regina Celli prison in Rome. He was 77 years old and he had been Pope for less than two months.
He looked at the rows of men, all convicted criminals, and he said, You could not come to me, so I came to you. Welcome back Sprouts. Today is October 11th, the feast of Pope St. John XXIII, a peasant farmer's son who became
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