Carlo Falconi

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

Roman Catholicism
.

Ordained as a

Catholic priest in 1938, Falconi left the priesthood in 1949 and became a journalist.[1]

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."[2]

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