A rare look at Pope John XXIII, the pope who convened the Second Vatican Council, cried out for peace during the explosive Cuban Missile Crisis, and in his short papacy, lasting just 4 years, 7 months and 6 days, managed to change the course of history. Just who was the man who had helped Jews flee to Palestine in 1943, then singlehandedly inaugurated the Catholic Church's dialogue with other faiths twenty years later?