Carlo Falconi (20 October 1915 – 24 September 1998) was an Italian journalist and writer about

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. Ordained as a

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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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* ''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.

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