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...DIONIGI TETTAMANZI, 71, Archbishop of Milan. A compromise candidate who could satisfy the minority progressives and reassure the traditionalists. It may be the most painless path to the necessary two-thirds required for election...
...tell TIME's Vatican expert consultant Giancarlo Zizola that the reformist wing of the College of Cardinals came into the pre-conclave period weak and particularly unprepared. And since the surprise momentum of the candidacy of Ratzinger - considered the symbol of the doctrinaire tendencies of the last pontificate - former Milan Archbishop Carlo Maria Martini, 78, has led an effort to scramble for a compromise candidate to oppose the German. Ratzinger as Pope, one source told Zizola, would amount to a "symbolic and institutional registering of the defeat? of the reforms of the 1960s Second Vatican Council. Tettamanzi, who succeeded Martini...
...Wednesday, April 13, 11 pm, Vatican City For the past three years, Milan's Dionigi Cardinal Tettamanzi has been the frontrunner to bring the papacy back to Italy after its 455-year grip on the job was broken by Karol Wojtyla. But another Italian has emerged on most papabili lists over the past year: Angelo Cardinal Scola, the Patriarch of Venice, who offers a more forceful, some would say aggressive, alternative to the affable Tettamanzi. He is considered a die-hard defender of John Paul II's strict line on Church doctrine, and one source notes that the 63-year...
...Italian Cardinal worth watching is Carlo Maria Martini, the 78-year-old former Archbishop of Milan, who spends much of his time studying ancient texts in Jerusalem. Martini, a brilliant Jesuit scholar and inarguably holy figure, was once the great white-haired hope of the progressives for a successor to John Paul. Few believe he is still 'papabile'. When I caught up with him after the Pope's funeral, he smiled and shook my hand, but stayed mum. He has, however, been talking during the Cardinals' daily meetings, and Corriere reported today that he was listened to "intently...
With Inter Milan trailing cross-town rival AC Milan 1-0 in the second leg of their UEFA Champions League quarterfinal showdown this week, Inter’s fans quickly spiraled out of control, bombarding the field with flares and other bits of detritus...