Pope John XXIII (1881–1963,) born Angelo Giuseppe Roncalli, was Pope from 28 October 1958 to his death in 1963. Angelo Giuseppe Roncalli was the fourth of fourteen children born to a family of sharecroppers that lived in a village in Lombardy. He was ordained a priest on 10 August 1904 and served in various posts including appointments as a papal nuncio in France, and a delegate to Bulgaria and Greece. Pope Pius XII made Roncalli a cardinal in a consistory on 12 January 1953 in addition to naming him the Patriarch of Venice and the Cardinal-Priest of Santa Prisca.
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It often happens that I wake at night and begin to think about a serious problem and decide I must tell the Pope about it. Then I wake up completely and remember that I am the Pope.
—Pope John XXIII
Topics: Religion, Leadership, Leaders
Listen to everything, forget much, correct little.
—Pope John XXIII
Topics: Listening
The true and solid peace of nations consists not in equality of arms, but in mutual trust alone.
—Pope John XXIII
Topics: Peace
See everything. Overlook a great deal. Improve a little.
—Pope John XXIII
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