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Ottaviani did not have to finish; with one voice the crowd shouted back the last name: "Montini! Montini!" Smiling broadly, Ottaviani completed his traditional announcement: ". . . who has taken the name of Paul VI." There were gasps and applause. Then, as the slight (5 ft. 10 in., 154 Ibs.), erect new Pope, his white-cassocked figure almost engulfed beneath a broad red stole, stepped out to give his first blessing to the city and to the world, he was greeted by a thunderous shout that welled up from the sea of waving handkerchiefs. His graceful, austere gestures reminded many of Pius...
...Very Long Lead." Giovanni Montini, Cardinal-Archbishop of Milan, had entered the conclave a Pope-and defied tradition by coming out of it a Pope. He had been the odds-on favorite of journalists, clerics, and the betting population of Rome's cafés. He was, at 65, the right age. He was that all-but-impossible combination, a "liberal" Italian who was basically acceptable to both Curia traditionalists and non-Italian progressives. He had a desirable blend of ecclesiastical experience behind him: eight years in charge of Italy's largest diocese, following three decades of efficient...
...been a protgé of Pope Pius XII; yet he was also a friend of John's, and he favored the continuation of the Ecumenical Council. Montini, in fact, had almost too many qualifications-and Vaticanologists even found themselves doublethinking reasons why he would not win after all. Yet when the cardinals marched in procession toward the Sistine Chapel last Wednesday to begin the conclave, there were whispers of "il Papa, il Papa" as Montini went by. The cardinal heard; he looked up in shock, and signaled for the bystanders to keep still...
...conclave of 1963* is officially so secret that anyone who tells incurs an automatic excommunication removable only by the Pope. But a secret in Rome often seems to be like a public announcement anywhere else. From the start, says one of the cardinals, "it was obvious to everyone that Montini had a very long lead." Some progressives at first apparently voted for Leo Josef Suenens of Malines-Brussels and Franziskus Konig of Vienna, as a reminder to the conclave that the Bishop of Rome need not always be an Italian; perhaps they had also meant to nudge a few archconservative...
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...