Part 2
The above piece was written by David Timbs in his essay "The Reinvention of the Fisherman" which was published in O.M.G. and also promoted on Catholica.au, a Catholic website in Australia.  This particular part of David Timbs essay was an extraordinary encapsulation of the conditions that pervaded the universal church.

One can only imagine what the church would have been like had John Paul I [Bishop Albinio Luciani] had lived for a number of years as a pope.  During Vatican II, he was staying at a Roman pensione run by some Italian nuns.  He liked to study in the afternoons, and was grateful that he had "an African bishop as a neighbor in the bleachers in the council hall who gives me the texts of the experts of the German bishops.  That way I can prepare myself."  Luciani had the openness of a student---willing to keep on growing.
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Giancarlo Zizola, "He Answered Papal Summons to Journalism," NCR [October 4, 2002], p. 10.