Pensive Pope
Photograph
Pensive Pope
1962
Gelatin silver print
Image: 9 9/16 × 7 1/2 in. (24.3 × 19 cm)
Paper: 10 1/8 × 7 15/16 in. (25.7 × 20.2 cm)
Gift of Time-Life Books
1968.0184.0579
Inscriptions Typed in black ink on applied label on verso, BC: 10/62 18) PENSIVE POPE: Now that the pageantry of the opening of the \ Ecumenical Council in Rome has faded from the TV waves, Pope John and \ his 2500 ecclesiatical colleagues are settling down to their job of \ bringing "the Church in step with modern times." Their first debate: \ the controversy between the autonomist bloc favoring a more decentralized \ Church and the conservatives favoring a continuance of strong central \ authority. \ Credit: Erich Lessing © 1962 MAGNUM Photos
