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There are plenty of misgivings about other cardinals who rule Italy's great archdioceses. Milan's aggressive Giovanni Montini, 65, a much-mentioned liberal with many Curia enemies, has been mercurial and indecisive as a pastoral leader. Easygoing, emotional Giacomo Lercaro, 71, of Bologna professes a deep interest in social reform, but, complains one Vatican official, "his conception of social work is giving alms." The likable Patriarch of Venice, Giovanni Urbani, 63, is thought to be excessively dependent upon his advisers...
...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...