POPE JOHN XIII AS A SOCIAL REFORMER
The article analyzes the ideas of the most outstanding Pope of the twentieth century - John XXIII. Not only was he able to successfully reform the Roman Catholic Church organizationally, but also to adapt it to the rapidly changing world of the twentieth century he also put forward original program of social reform, sending it in the first place Italy, but not excluding its use in other developed countries of the West. The article examines the most important Encyclical of Pope John XXIII, traced their connection with other ideological currents of our time. In the crisis of the Catholic Church in the West (and the entire world of Christianity), the idea of the Pope that strengthened Katolicism after the two world wars сannot fail to be of interest.