Unlike the papabile cardinals Giacomo Lercaro of Bologna and Giuseppe Siri of Genoa, he was not identified with either the left or right, nor was he seen as a radical reformer. He was viewed as most likely to continue the Second Vatican Council, which already, without any tangible results, had lasted longer than anticipated by John XXIII, who had a vision but "did not have a clear agenda. His rhetoric seems to have had a note of over-optimism, a confidence in progress, which was characteristic of the 1960s." When John XXIII died of stomach cancer on 3 June 1963, it triggered a conclave to elect a new pope.
Unlike the papabile cardinals Giacomo Lercaro of Bologna and Giuseppe Siri of Genoa , he was not identified with either the left or right , nor was he seen as a radical reformer . He was viewed as most likely to continue the Second Vatican Council , which already , without any tangible results , had lasted longer than anticipated by John XXIII , who had a vision but " did not have a clear agenda . His rhetoric seems to have had a note of over - optimism , a confidence in progress , which was characteristic of the 1960s . " When John XXIII died of stomach cancer on 3 June 1963 , it triggered a conclave to elect a new pope .
What role did Pope John XXIII's death precipitate the election of?
What role did Pope John XXIII 's death precipitate the election of ?
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