Pope John Paul the Second swam and walked great distances.

教皇约翰?保罗二世喜欢长距离的游泳与步行。

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But "Good Pope John," a stolid career diplomat for the Vatican, surprised everyone by announcing a year later that he was convening the Second Vatican Council, a major event in church history.

但是，“好教皇约翰，”为梵蒂冈宣布，一年后，他召开了梵蒂冈第二次会议，在教会历史上的一件大事令人惊讶的感觉迟钝的职业外交家。

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Many will pray that the new pope is more in the mould of Pope John XXIII, who ushered in the Second Vatican Council that sat for much of the 1960s.

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Two years had elapsed since the Second Vatican Council convened by Pope John XXIII in 1962, which set out to dismantle the charge that Jews were responsible for killing Jesus.

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If that happens, and it is far from certain, it could help fulfil the promise of universality made in the early 1960s at the Second Vatican Council, but which Pope John XXIII did not live to nurse to maturity.

ECONOMIST: The Roman Catholic church