Based on extensive research in selected religious periodicals covering the last ten years, the book assesses the remarkable Impact made on the whole Christian world by the late pope. Father Bianchi clarifies but does not oversimplify the picture -he shows how some Protestants have continued more tra-ditional views toward Catholicism, while others have re sponded with genuine enthusiasm to the remarkable changes in Rome released by Pope John."

Robert T. Handy, Professor of Church History, Union Theological Seminary, New York

Sanctity does have an impact beyond the natural dimensions of leadership, and it was this impact which John has had on American Protestantism. Father Bianchi has well documented the depth of prejudice in the United States and has dealt fairly with the joint Roman Catholic-Protestant responsibility for that prejudice. And he has shown with painstaking precision the development of the thaw in our relations through the steps of the Council"

Rt. Rev. Paul Moore, Jr., Suffragan Bishop (Episcopalian) Diocese of Washington, DC