Carlo Falconi (20 October 1915 – 24 September 1998) was an Italian journalist and writer about
Roman Catholicism
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Ordained as a
Catholic priest
The priesthood is the office of the ministers of religion, who have been commissioned ("ordained") with the Holy orders of the Catholic Church. Technically, bishops are a priestly order as well; however, in layman's terms ''priest'' refers only ...
in 1938, Falconi left the priesthood in 1949 and became a journalist.
The
Kirkus Review said of ''The Popes in the Twentieth Century'', "On the whole, then, the book is a readable and not uninteresting, but primarily subjective, history of the twentieth-century papacy, that will hold little appeal for a critical audience."
"The Popes in the Twentieth Century", Kirkus
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Works
* ''Pope John and his council; a diary of the Second Vatican Council, September–December 1962'', 1964
* ''The silence of Pius XII'', 1965
* ''The Popes in the twentieth century, from Pius X to John XXIII'', 1967.
References
Further reading
* G. Martina, 'Carlo Falconi (1915-1998)', ''Rivista di storia della Chiesa in Italia'', Vol. 52 (1998), pp. 591–4
1915 births
1998 deaths
Italian non-fiction writers
Italian male journalists
Italian Roman Catholic writers
Laicized Roman Catholic priests
20th-century Italian journalists
20th-century Italian male writers
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