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...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...
Extraordinary Questions, which will control the admission to the agenda of new problems raised by bishops in council discussion. Chairman of the secretariat is moderate Amleto Cardinal Cicognani, the Vatican Secretary of State and longtime 1933-58) apostolic delegate to the U.S. But also on the secretariat are such moderates and liberals as Chicago's Albert Meyer, Milan's Giovanni Montini, Julius Dopfner of Munich, Leo Jozef Suenens of Malines-Bruxelles...
...SECRETARIAT OF STATE. The top job in the Vatican's Foreign Ministry was left vacant for 14 years under Pius XII (who preferred to carry on his own diplomacy), is now held by pudgy Amleto Cardinal Cicognani, 79, longtime (1933-58) apostolic delegate...
...late to bed and early to rise." Aug. 25 -1) Estes and Gerrity "start work at 6:30 a.m., finish at 7 p.m. . . . and expect their staff to do the same." 2) "Ulbricht's formidable stamina kept his colleagues on an 18-hour day." 3) "In Washington, Cicognani began his day at 6 a.m. and expected his associates to do the same." Effective this week, I am setting my alarm clock for 5 a.m. and "expect my associates to do the same." What time does Time's editor arrive on the job? LEONARD L. LASNIK
...Other Jobs. One of John's first acts as Pope was to bring Cicognani back to Rome in 1958 and make him a cardinal, overruling Article 232 of canon law, which prohibits brothers, first cousins, or an uncle and a nephew, from being cardinals simultaneously, as had previously been done by both Leo XIII and Pius XI, but to Gaetano Cardinal Cicognani the law was a constant source of worry and chagrin because it seemed to curb his talented brother. Once at a dinner a fellow prelate had jokingly said to Gaetano: "Because of you, your brother cannot become...