Word: archbishop
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...likely to succeed Pope John, partly because his political views are too conservative by modern Vatican standards, partly because too many cardinals fear the authoritarian rule he might impose. Ottaviani might well try to throw the next papal election to another conservative, such as Giuseppe Cardinal Siri, 55, Archbishop of Genoa. A brilliant administrator, Siri is notorious for his opposition to ecclesiastical innovation: although most of the dockworkers in his diocese must work mornings, he refuses to allow pastors to say Mass in the afternoon...
...possible compromise choices is Agagianian, who according to Roman gossip came within a handful of votes of winning election in 1958. Then, as now, some cardinals would not vote for him out of dislike for having "a Pope with a beard." Another Roman papabile is not yet a cardinal: Archbishop Pericle Felici, 50, secretary-general of the Central Preparatory Commission for the Ecumenical Council. A veteran of 15 years in the Curia ranks, Felici will undoubtedly win a red hat. at the next consistory if the Vatican Council is a success...
...Braintruster Nhu (still clad in pajamas) and Presidential Hostess Mme. Nhu, snatched three of their children (a fourth was away from home) and bolted for the basement. In the scramble, Mme. Nhu fell down the steps, bruising her arms, legs and forehead. Also to the bunker rushed another brother. Archbishop Thuc, in Saigon for medical treatment...
When Mintoff tried to boost tourism in order to help the economy, hurt by cutbacks at the British naval base, the Archbishop squelched a proposal to build a gambling casino and censured bikinis as immodest. Finally, left-leaning Mintoff threatened to seek economic aid from neutralist Egypt or Communist Yugoslavia. For "grave offenses against ecclesiastical authorities," the Archbishop put the Labor Party's entire leadership under interdict (denying them confession, communion or consecrated burial), made it a mortal sin for a Catholic to support the Socialists...
This feud set the stage for the bitterest election campaign in the island's history. Lined up against the Labor Party were five other parties, all acceptable to Archbishop Gonzi. While Mintoff ran on a hate-Britain platform that urged an independent, neutralist Malta, his chief opponents, the Nationalists, advocated independence within the Commonwealth. (The island currently has self-government except in defense and foreign affairs, which are supervised by a British high commissioner.) But in the months leading up to last week's election, foreign policy issues were overshadowed by the emotional struggle between church and state...