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...latest curial maneuver came to light in a letter that Augustin Cardinal Bea gloomily read out to the bishops and theologians who serve on the Secretariat for Promoting Christian Unity. Signed by Archbishop Pericle Felici, the council's secretary, the letter proposed that the somewhat lackluster declaration on anti-Semitism (TIME, Oct. 9), which a majority of bishops wishes to strengthen, should be reduced to a short chapter in the schema, De Ecclesia (On the Church). Felici also urged that a declaration on religious liberty be rewritten by a special committee of four bishops-three of them conservatives...
...Josef Cardinal Suenens, one of four supervising moderators of the council and a leader of the progressive forces, proposed that the prelates be allowed to take a straw vote on the four key propositions of the schema. Up popped the council's secretary-general, Archbishop Pericle Felici of the Curia, to argue that there was no provision in the rules of order for any such poll...
Siding with Suenens. Felici's point of order set off a flurry of behind-the-scenes politicking. At a closed-door meeting in the library of the Vatican Secretary of State, the 15 council presidents and members of a coordinating commission that is responsible for presenting the agenda spent three hours arguing whether Suenens had any right to propose the floor vote. They voted eleven to nine against him. Both Suenens and Ottaviani had a series of interviews with Pope Paul. Although reluctant to interfere with the debate, the Pope had already received complaints from several bishops about...
Compromiser & Cheerleader. John himself, in the council preparations, played the dual role of head cheerleader and supreme referee. He frequently visited the office of Archbishop Pericle Felici, secretary of the Central Preparatory Commission, and benevolently told the workers that he was pleased with their progress and would pray for their work. Occasionally he took a hand in redrafting agenda items that might cause offense to certain prelates. One agenda item suggested by Alfredo Cardinal Ottaviani's theological commission, on the relation of Scripture to church tradition, was so potentially damaging to interfaith relations that Cardinal Bea personally wrote...
...mandatory retirement age, deplored the splendiferous costumes of cardinals and bishops, recommended that Curia officials be chosen from the best men available in the world, rather than in Italy. Lombardi's plea was bluntly censured by L'Osservatore Romano, in an article reportedly written by Archbishop Felici. But the winds of change have been felt in the broad, quiet Vatican halls, and reform of the cardinalate and the Curia may come from Pope John's successor...