RELIGION & ETHICS
1 November 2007
Thursday 1 November 2007 15:45-16:00 (Radio 4 FM)
Prof Eamon Duffy presents a series on ten great pontiffs.
John XXIII reigned for less than five years. But when he died, The Times commented that few Popes had so captured the world's imagination. A kindly, laughing old man when he took the papal throne, he immediately astonished the Catholic Church by calling the Second Vatican Council. Duffy examines the life of the Pope with the vision of a new Pentecost.
Followed by News.
