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Ominous Title. Felici's ambiguously phrased letter implied that these directions had come directly from Pope Paul VI himself. Actually, as Bea and his secretariat soon discovered, the letter did not have papal approval. The suggestions had come from Amleto Cardinal Cicognani, who had no authority of his own to give the orders, despite his important roles as Vatican Secretary of State and president of the Council's Coordinating Commission...
Paul VI began following the path blazed by John with his very first actions as Pope. He renamed John's old friend Amleto Cicognani as the Vatican's Secretary of State, and Monsignor Angelo Dell'Acqua as Substitute Secretary. The new Pope descended to the grotto beneath St. Peter's to pray by the side of his predecessor's tomb. And in the spirit of John's footloose ways, Paul VI left the Vatican the day after his election-to visit Spain's ailing primate, Enrique Cardinal Pla y Deniel...
Decision & Enemies. Among the Curia papabili, Amleto Cicognani, 80, the Vatican's Secretary of State under
...long day drew on, crowds gathered to pray and watch outside St. Peter's, and a stream of visitors came to the papal bedside. With a group of senior cardinals-among them Eugene Tisserant, Alfredo Ottaviani, and Amleto Cicognani, the Vatican's Secretary of State-John talked about identifying the three cardinals in petto whose names he has kept secret since 1960. The Pope also blessed the cardinals and thanked them for their support. "I'm sorry to be going," the Pope said. "To many," answered Ottaviani, "it appears to be the hand...
...council session, Pope John was obviously pleased; the council, he said, had enabled him "to hear the voice of the whole Catholic world." To make sure that the next session would go faster, he set up a new secretariat under his Secretary of State, Amleto Cardinal Cicognani, to carry on council deliberations until the council fathers reconvene on Sept. 8. To each bishop he arranged to send all proposals during the recess, in a sort of continuing council by mail order. As for the disagreements that the council had produced, John dismissed them by saying, "We are not friars singing...