Word: franziskus
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Casaroli, who recently negotiated the disposition of Roman Catholic property with Moslem Tunisia, took over the job of dealing with Hungary from Vienna's Franziskus Cardinal König. Originally, the Vatican tried to arrange the departure of Josef Cardinal Mindszenty from asylum in the U.S. legation in Budapest, hoping that an agreement about the status of the church in Hun gary would follow. When that approach failed, Casaroli started dickering for some freedom for the church, on the theory that sooner or later a solution to Mindszenty's problem might be found...
...ranking progressive cardinals flew in from northern Europe and made some headlines. Franziskus Cardinal König of Vienna, 58, chief negotiator between the Vatican and Hungary over Josef Cardinal Mindszenty, reported that Mindszenty would leave his exile in the U.S. consulate if the Pope directly asked him to, but was determined to stay in Budapest until the government gave the church an ironclad guarantee of freedom from persecution. Konig also predicted a Vatican Council ruling on mixed Protestant-Catholic marriages and the formation of a senate of bishops to help the Pope govern the church after the council completes...
...secret in Rome often seems to be like a public announcement anywhere else. From the start, says one of the cardinals, "it was obvious to everyone that Montini had a very long lead." Some progressives at first apparently voted for Leo Josef Suenens of Malines-Brussels and Franziskus Konig of Vienna, as a reminder to the conclave that the Bishop of Rome need not always be an Italian; perhaps they had also meant to nudge a few archconservative votes toward Montini, as the least of the possible evils...
Nearly all the leading candidates have some sort of handicap that would seem to prevent them from gaining a two-thirds majority. The liberal favorites-theologically minded Leo Josef Suenens, 58, of Malines-Brussels, and Vienna's courtly, diplomatic Franziskus Konig, 57-would have to overcome the tra dition that Rome's bishop ought to be Italian. Genoa's Giuseppe Siri, 57, and Palermo's Ernesto Ruffini, 75, are skilled, articulate conservatives-but their lack of aperturismo makes many non-Italian cardinals shudder...
...black Mercedes-Benz sedan belonging to Austria's legation in Hungary sped from Vienna to Budapest one morning last week and pulled up in front of the U.S. legation. Inside the building, Vienna's Franziskus Cardinal Konig went to the room occupied since 1956 by Josef Cardinal Mindszenty. For four hours, the two clerics talked about Pope John's wish that the Hungarian primate leave the country and go to Rome as part of John's new "active neutrality" in the cold war (TIME, April...