Pope John XXIII

for example.

So, I mean, any single day, I would choose Pope Pius XII and John XXIII and Paul VI over Elon Musk and Peter Thiel and the Technobros.

So this is something that says... a lot on how the church plays a very delicate role.

So here, I'm not saying that the Vatican or the Catholic Church are a paradise for democratic ideals, no.

And they talked about it.

It has to be in the way that Kennedy and Khrushchev did it, and Pope John XXIII.

It has to be world leaders coming together to realize that we're in a position that's untenable to have all these nuclear weapons, the 13,000 or so nuclear weapons we have, and the nine nuclear states.

And so it's not going to be done by force.

The other became the apostle that people call on when everything else seems to be exhausted.

saints simon and jude faithful apostles of christ and companions in martyrdom pray for us today in church history the election of pope john the 23rd on october 28 1958 white smoke rose above the sistine chapel announcing the election of a new pope After 11 ballots, the cardinals had chosen a 76-year-old Italian, Angelo Roncalli, who took the name John XXIII.

His election came just 19 days after the death of Pope Pius XII, whose long pontificate had guided the church through World War II and the early Cold War.

Many observers expected Roncalli and voted for him to be a transitional pope, someone who could just provide a few quiet years before a younger man took over.

which is why everyone was a little bit surprised when just three months later, John XXIII stunned the Catholic world by announcing his intention to summon an ecumenical council.

This was something that had been talked about by previous popes, and every time they brought it up, it was decided there was too much division, too much concern of modernism seeping into the finishing of the first Vatican council.

But here was Pope John XXIII deciding to put his stamp on the church.

After several years of preparation, the Second Vatican Council opened in October 1962, bringing thousands of bishops to Rome to discuss the church's relationship with the modern world.

Yeah.

And, and so, but the things that he said that have come true and the fact that he went on world tours all over different countries and, and it was, you know, was interviewed by the queen of the Netherlands and, and giving the papal medal from John XXIII

and things like that, that

just drives these UFO people nuts because