Vatican Secretary of State pays tribute to St. John XXIII’s military service
December 11, 2018
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CWN Editor's Note: Offering Mass on December 7 at the Military Ordinariate of Italy’s major seminary, Cardinal Pietro Parolin praised the evangelizing mission of military chaplains and recalled Pope St. John XXIII’s work as a military chaplain during World War I. During his service, the future Pope came to see, as he wrote in a letter, that his work as military chaplain “offered me the occasion to approach souls far more” than previously.
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