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...center of the campaign-preaching, teaching, criticizing and applauding 20 hours a day-was Milan's Archbishop Giovanni Battista Montini, 60, who, though he is not yet a cardinal, is frequently mentioned as successor to the present Pope. Said Archbishop Montini to his priests in opening the mission: "Go ye forth and speak. Your lips are opened. Preach the Gospel to every living creature . . . Open the churches! Open the houses and courtyards, schools and barracks . . . Open every doorway and above all open every heart...
Reason No. 2 : there are only ten vacancies in the College. Since three red hats are virtual musts at the next consistory-to Archbishops Griffin of Westminster, Koenig of Vienna and Montini of Milan-there would be only seven vacancies to fill many demands for new cardinals. Thus it would be wiser to wait till more openings occur. "There are several cardinals of advanced age," as one prelate put it delicately, "and despite the most charitable hopes, they cannot last much longer...
Another though less important reason for delay is the almost poetic complexity of Vatican policies as exemplified in the Montini-Tardini situation. Monsignors Giovanni Montini and Domenico Tardini labored long in the Vatican as equal advisers to the Pope until Pius XII appointed Montini Archbishop of Milan two years ago. At the next consistory, Montini will surely be made a cardinal, and that should normally mean a red hat also for Tardini, now pro-Secretary of State. But Tardini refuses to be a cardinal; he has all the power and honor he wants, feels that the ceremonies attendant upon...
...five machines stood, rectangular, silver-green, silent. They were obviously not thinking about anything at all as Archbishop Giovanni Battista Montini of Milan raised his hand to bless them...
...bedside, the Pope made a point of receiving his old friend and adviser, Msgr. Giovanni Battista Montini-a man who, if he had a red hat, would be one of the top candidates for the papacy. This week Msgr. Montini was consecrated Archbishop of Milan, and when His Holiness presented the archbishop-elect a pectoral cross, a gift not normally made until after the ceremony, the Vatican newspaper Osservatore Romano noted this demonstration of "very particular benevolence." Montini's consecration was cli maxed by a four-minute recorded speech of affection and blessing by the Pope...