John XXIII: The Universal Parish Priest

Angelo Roncalli, intelligent, modest, joyful and from the humblest of
origins, became Pope aged 78. Yet his short papacy (1958-1963)
inaugurated the most significant event in Church life for centuries: the
Vatican Council II. The moving spiritual journey told here - his
ambitions and failures, his family and the years overseas as a papal
representative - reveal the gentle heart of a true pastor.