![]() ![]() While reaffirming the woman’s vocation to motherhood and declaring that “family and work two centres of attraction, two nuclei, on which a woman’s life is focused on”, John XXIII urged the need for the society to adapt its systems in order for the woman to “realise the fullness of her personality”. ![]() In his writings and speeches, the “Good Pope John,” as people lovingly called him, highlighted, in the context of the 1960s, the importance of the woman’s involvement in the public sphere. John XXIII’s novel mindset also spilled onto his ideas on the woman. Besides, did he not choose to call himself as “John” and “Paul” in order to situate his policies in the prolongation of John XXIII and Paul VI, the former being the unexpected instigator of the revolution known as Vatican II? Indeed, in his “espresso” term – a short but strong five years of service (1958-1963) – Angelo Roncalli’s innovative disposition has led some to fondly call him “Giovanni fuori le mure” (John Outside the Walls) or “Johnny Walker”. ![]() ![]() While, for chronological reasons, we are more familiar with John Paul II and his work on the woman, one can perhaps observe that the Polish Pope’s coining of the “feminine genius” could represent a maturity in thought that has been brought down from John XXIII and his predecessors. ![]()
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