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Died. Giacomo Cardinal Lercaro, 84, former archbishop of Bologna, regarded by some Vatican watchers in 1963 as a possible successor to Pope John XXIII; in Bologna. As a parish priest in Genoa during World War II, Lercaro aided anti-Fascist partisans and refugees. As archbishop of Bologna (1952-68), he organized a group of young priests into the frati volanti (flying friars) to speak out at public rallies against the local Communist government. Lercaro also supported Vatican II reforms such as the vernacular Mass and argued that the church should end its "cultural colonialism" toward non-Europeans, especially in Africa...
Joining Ottaviani in retirement is Arcadio Cardinal Larraona, 80, the traditionalist head of the Congregation of Rites. At the same time, Giacomo Cardinal Lercaro, 76, the Archbishop of Bologna, resigned his additional duty as head of the Council-created consilium for liturgical reform-thereby allowing the Pope to combine the two overlapping jobs and give them to another non-Italian: Benno Cardinal Gut, 70, a Swiss Benedictine abbot who favors more changes in the Mass...
...Malaga's Angel Herrera y Oria, 79, sent a resignation that was accepted, and Tarragona's Benjamin de Arriba y Castro, 80, reportedly offered to step down. Paris' Maurice Cardinal Feltin, 83, said last week that he planned to retire, and Bologna's Giacomo Cardinal Lercaro, who will be 75 next month, is ready to leave at the Pope's pleasure. One U.S. prelate has resigned: Archbishop Edward Howard, 88, of Portland, Ore. By Oct. 11, when the papal directive takes effect, probably 200 of Catholicism's 2,500 bishops will have resigned...
Dozza thrives on paradox. When Bologna's Giacomo Cardinal Lercaro ordered the shaky old church of San Giorgio torn down, it was Dozza who insisted on repairs to preserve it as an historic landmark. In 1956, when a Christian Democratic candidate for mayor tried to undercut Dozza by promising sweeping social-welfare programs, the Red mayor branded his scheme financially irresponsible, and was re-elected by a landslide...
Stronger & More Specific. During the discussion of Schema 13, there were many demands that it be made stronger and more specific. Montreal's Paul-Emile Cardinal Léger asked that it be stripped of all sterile condemnations; Giacomo Cardinal Lercaro of Bologna complained that the present text was too narrowly Occidental and European in viewpoint. The schema was attacked as unacceptable by Sicily's implacably conservative Ernesto Cardinal Ruffini and by Archbishop John Heenan of Westminster. Heenan charged that it had been written by clerics with no knowledge of the world, delivered a savage attack on theological...