Word: cardinalate
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Angelo Giuseppe Cardinal Roncalli, 77, Patriarch of Venice, is popular, devoted to charitable works, nonpolitical, lives up to his cardinal's motto: "Obedientia et Pax."
Alfredo Cardinal Ottaviani, 67, pro-Secretary of the Congregation of the Holy Office (the church's guardian of dogma), is a stiff-backed expert in canon law and one of the Vatican's more reactionary figures. He is handicapped by near-blindness in one eye.
Valeric Cardinal Valeri, 75, the Vatican's top administrator for religious orders and an outstanding theologian.
As he stood over the body of Pope Pius XII, Eugene Cardinal Tisserant softly pronounced the words: "The Holy Father is dead." With his words began a solemn interregnum that will end only when the newly elected Pope walks from the Sistine Chapel to bless the crowds waiting in St...
Since Pius XII had not filled the office that would become most important after his death, that of Camerlengo (chamberlain), the 13 cardinals in Rome on the day he died hurriedly chose one: 79-year-old Vatican Diplomat Benedetto Aloisi Cardinal Masella. One of his first duties was the breaking...