Word: lercaro
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...chosen unanimously in less than 24 hours. Vatican insiders are reconstructing the three voting days of the conclave, with their suspenseful smoke signals, this way: two main groups faced each other, one faction under archconservative Cardinal Ottaviani, the other (including the French cardinals) supporting liberal, reform-minded Cardinal Lercaro of Bologna. In the middle, fitting neither the "political" nor the "pastoral" label completely (since they had ample experience of both kinds), were Roncalli and Patriarch of the Armenians Agagianian. The fact that Agagianian is non-Italian, and too young (63) in the view of some cardinals who would prefer...
Giacomo Cardinal Lercaro, 66, Archbishop of Bologna, a sailor's son, is a lusty, genial fighter who organized the "flying priest" squads against the Communists. Deeply concerned with social reform, he has a left-wing reputation...
Flying Friars. When Montini decided this fall that Milan needed a major spiritual lift, he went at it with energy and thoroughness. From Bologna he borrowed Giacomo Cardinal Lercaro's squad of 20 "Flying Friars" (TIME, Dec. 7, 1953), whose trucks carry loudspeakers, altars and confessionals. From all over Italy he hand-picked a corps of 800 preachers belonging to all religious orders. He lined up the cooperation of Milan's officials, businessmen and non-Communist Labor leaders. Aim of the mission is not converts but "to strengthen man's filial ties...
...special programs for various vocations-from artists, attorneys, ballerinas, bartenders, bus drivers to policemen, professors, radio-TV workers, social workers, soldiers, students, taxi drivers. In a daily round of rallies, 22 bishops and archbishops from all over Italy moved from one group to another. Bologna's Giacomo Cardinal Lercaro scheduled six sermons for meetings of Milan intellectuals and Genoa's Giuseppe Cardinal Siri was signed up for seven to business executives...
...Humanism is as much of a modern blight as atheism, said Giacomo Cardinal Lercaro in an address to Catholic Action in Milan. "The development of humanism-understood as a shifting of history's and life's center from God to man-has become a part of man's mentality, and has grown through the centuries to the point that besides atheism there has grown up an indifference to God, a habit of mind wherein the need of God is not felt in that man feels sufficient unto himself. In this atmosphere God is relegated to the place...