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...most important new appointment will be a cardinal to fill the upgraded post of Secretary of State-or Papal Secretary, as it will now be called. The present Secretary of State, Cardinal Cicognani, 84, is soon expected to resign. His successor will be a kind of Vatican Prime Minister, with new responsibility to coordinate Curia affairs and to summon cardinals to Cabinet-style meetings. The Pope also set up an office to supervise the four departments that handle the Vatican's vast financial interests...
...dour and learned churchly diplomat, Vagnozzi suffered by comparison with his much admired predecessor, Amleto Cardinal Cicognani, now the Vatican's Secretary of State. Privately, many American bishops complained that Vagnozzi took too active an interest in the internal affairs of the U.S. church. In 1963, for example, he persuaded several prelates to cancel speaking engagements of the radical-minded Swiss Theologian Hans Küng. Both before and after the Second Vatican Council, Vagnozzi delivered repeated speeches warning U.S. Catholics against imprudent hankerings for too much change. The apostolic delegate is also known to have expressed strong opinions...
...another; several of the new prelates are seconds-in-command to venerable conservatives who presumably will now be induced to retire. Both Angelo Dell'Acqua and Antonio Samoré, the two Vatican under secretaries of state, are considerably more open to church renewal than their superior, Amleto Cardinal Cicognani, 84. France's Archbishop Gabriel Garrone, 65, pro-prefect of the important Congregation for Seminaries, was one of the liberal leaders at the Second Vatican Council before he transferred to Rome as heir apparent to Giuseppe Cardinal Pizzardo...
What About Paul? Exempted from the retirement rule because they are curial officials are France's Eugene Tis-serant, 82; Germany's Augustin Bea, 85; and Italy's Amleto Cicognani, 83, the Vatican Secretary of State...
...slowdown order came from the Secretariat of State, headed by Amleto Cardinal Cicognani, Vagnozzi's predecessor as Apostolic Delegate and one of Rome's most powerful conservatives...