Cardinal John Heenan on the Traditional Character of Pope Saint John XXIII:
“Pope John was an old-fashioned Catholic of the ‘garden-of-souls type.’ He read his Faber, and no doubt prayed the Litany to the Most Sacred Heart of Jesus regularly; he was not an original thinker. It was Pope Pius XII — not Pope John XXIII — who permitted married pastors to become priests, who changed the eucharistic fasting rules, and who introduced the evening Mass. Pope John was no innovator. He did not set any great reform in motion. His achievement lay in teaching the world of the 20th century how small hatred is, and how great love is.”
- Westminster Cathedral Chronicle, (July 1964)
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