| A Letter from Archbishop Angelo Dcll’Acqua |
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| Preface |
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| I Ecumenical Death |
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| 1 The light in the window |
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| 2 Revelation of the Church |
4 |
| 3 Revelation of unity |
6 |
| Extracts (from Pope John’s writings and speeches) |
10 |
| II A Pontificate that was a Special Gift from God |
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| 1 God’s delight in men |
22 |
| 2 The institution and the charismatic gift |
26 |
| 3 The “characteristic lines” of his pontificate |
29 |
| Extracts |
35 |
| III Obedience and Peace |
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| 1 The “Roncalli mystery” |
42 |
| 2 The “conversion” of Angelo Roncalli |
45 |
| 3 “Pure loss” |
51 |
| 4 The will of others |
52 |
| Extracts |
58 |
| IV Evangelical Realism |
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| 1 Natural holiness |
67 |
| 2 The Christian Mind |
69 |
| 3 The Gospel and life |
71 |
| 4 Natural inclination as wisdom |
75 |
| 5 The sense of proportion |
77 |
| Extracts |
81 |
| V Loyalty to his Land |
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| 1 The childlike Pope |
87 |
| 2 Humble folk |
89 |
| 3 “I love life’* |
92 |
| 4 Simplicity which was modernity |
95 |
| Extracts |
101 |
| VI Holy Folly |
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| 1 Inextinguishable mirth |
111 |
| 2 The wisdom of cheerfulness |
115 |
| 3 Freedom from formality |
117 |
| 4 The wisdom of the heart |
120 |
| 5 Against separate theologies |
122 |
| Extracts |
125 |
| VII The Public Fountain |
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| 1 Authority as service |
130 |
| 2 The pastoral vocation |
132 |
| 3 True fatherhood |
135 |
| 4 End of a special language |
139 |
| Extracts |
143 |
| VIII Travelling Together |
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| 1 A “wise and gracious prudence” |
153 |
| 2 Respect for man |
155 |
| 3 Optimism as love |
159 |
| 4 Keeping step with those who go forward |
160 |
| Extracts |
168 |
| IX “The People of God” |
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| 1 The crisis of Christ’s people |
173 |
| 2 Sociological optimism |
176 |
| 3 To prepare a perfect people |
180 |
| 4 Pope John and the common people |
183 |
| Extracts |
190 |
| X The New Age |
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| 1 The “transition” |
204 |
| 2 The end of an erroneous pessimism |
6 |
| 3 The ecumenical era |
210 |
| 4 Examination and acceptance of the modern world |
215 |
| Extracts |
219 |
| XI Peace on Earth |
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| 1 The end of the “undue interference” |
226 |
| 2 The new historical situation |
231 |
| 3 Conscience and institutions |
232 |
| 4 Active neutrality |
236 |
| Extracts |
242 |
| XII Christian Unity |
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| 1 A new driving force |
252 |
| 2 One Christian family |
255 |
| 3 The primacy of charity |
257 |
| 4 To insist on what unites men |
261 |
| 5 Signs of the thaw |
263 |
| Extracts |
267 |
| XIII Catholic Diversity |
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| 1 The whole and the part |
275 |
| 2 The internal dialogue |
278 |
| 3 The right to be different |
282 |
| Extracts |
286 |
| XIV The Church is Moving |
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| 1 The route is still the same |
296 |
| 2 Towards the source |
300 |
| 3 Towards unity |
303 |
| 4 Towards the modem world |
306 |
| Extracts |
311 |
Tác giả: Vô Danh
Tác giả: Antoine Chatelard
