Carlo Falconi

{{short description|Italian journalist and writer}}

{{for|the bishop|Carlo Falconi (bishop)}}

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.{{cite book|author=Henri de Lubac|title=Quaderni del Concilio|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=bllRj6HptfIC&pg=PA170|accessdate=7 May 2013|year=2009|publisher=Editoriale Jaca Book|isbn=978-88-16-30461-1|page=170}}

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."[https://www.kirkusreviews.com/book-reviews/carlo-falconi/the-popes-in-the-twentieth-century/ "The Popes in the Twentieth Century", Kirkus]

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

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Further reading

  • G. Martina, 'Carlo Falconi (1915-1998)', Rivista di storia della Chiesa in Italia, Vol. 52 (1998), pp. 591–4

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Category:1915 births

Category:1998 deaths

Category:Italian non-fiction writers

Category:Italian male journalists

Category:Italian Roman Catholic writers

Category:Laicized Roman Catholic priests

Category:20th-century Italian journalists

Category:20th-century Italian male writers

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