Word: montini
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Hailed at first as a way to bring the Bible closer to the people, Vignal's La Bibbia soon encountered more trials than Job. The Italian Rabbinical Council denounced La Bibbia as "sacrilege"; Milan's Roman Catholic Cardinal Montini withdrew the nihil obstat of the church. Sales slumped, and ugly rumors grew that Vignal's crew of actors, who posed for the crude Biblical scenes, lived private lives of less than Biblical probity...
Giovanni Batista Montini, 61, universally respected throughout Italy as the brightest and busiest of prelates, is the leading new pastoral cardinal, although most of his experience has been in Vatican administration. The son of a well-to-do Brescia lawyer and member of Parliament, Montini entered the Vatican State Secretariat in 1924, where he served for 30 years, becoming (with Tardini) the late Pope's Pro-Secretary of State and one of his closest advisers. He is said to have begged off a red hat in Pius XII's 1952 consistory: instead, the Pope made...
...church in Latin America in giving cardinals for the first time to Uruguay and Mexico, 2) stiffened the church's position against the Reds by appointing in embattled Berlin a young cardinal renowned for his anti-Communism (see below), 3) honored Milan's popular Archbishop Giovanni Battista Montini by placing his name at the head of the official list of new cardinals, giving him the unofficial title of the new Pope's prima creatura...
Giovanni Battista Montini, 61, Archbishop of Milan, is one of the ablest men in the church, served under Pius XII as pro-Secretary of State for ten years. Shifted from the Vatican to the Milan diocese in 1954, he still wears no red hat; not for almost 600 years has a noncardinal been chosen...
...church's scientists). Possible choice: Australia's Father Daniel O'Connell, head of the Vatican Observatory. To replace ailing Cardinal Canali as deacon, the Pope will likely choose one of several Vatican monsignori. Among best bets for the remaining red hats: Archbishops Giovanni Battista Montini of Milan. Rufino Santos of Manila, Richard J. Gushing of Boston, Tatsuo Doi of Tokyo, William Godfrey of Westminster, Francis König of Vienna, John Landazuri Ricketts of Lima, Peru, and Joseph Maria Bueno y Monreal of Seville. A Negro cardinal for Africa is likely; candidates include Archbishop Joseph Kiwanuka...