This is a biography of the present Pope Paul VI. No pope of this era has so early in his pontificate been the object of so much widespread interest and conjecture. Mgr. Clancy, who worked under Cardinal Montini in the Papal Secretariat of State and came to know him well, tells the story of his career and the development of his views as school boy, priest, Vatican diplomat, close helper of Pius XII, Archbishop of Milan under John XXIII, and now the most influential figure in the Christian church. This study of Pope Paul's personality considers his attitudes in a variety of matters, his working methods, his writing, his intelectual interests and wide reading. From it emerges a portrait of a man who knows from experience that the example of John XXIII was the right one, and that the Pope can no longer follow a separatist tradition. He can hardly fail to make his impact on religious history and world events in the days to come.