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Msgr. Giovanni Battista Montini, Pius' most trusted collaborator, who throughout the Pope's illness has been doing more and more of the Pontiff's work, was appointed to the vital Archbishopric of Milan, succeeding the late Ildefonso Cardinal Schuster. At the same time, cardinals and bishops received new, sharp instructions designed to remedy what the Pope regards as creeping weaknesses in the church. Among the Pope's chief complaints...
MSGR. GIOVANNI BATTISTA MONTINI, 56, and MSGR. DOMENICO TARDINI. 65, pro-Secretaries of State, who run Vatican diplomacy under the Pope's direct supervision (since the death of Cardinal Maglione, in 1944, the Pope has not appointed a new Secretary of State, has since remarked: "The man would have to be my shadow, and I haven't found one"). Montini, in charge of day-to-day operations, is thin, suave, cool, precise, and politically a middle-of-the-roader. Tardini, in charge of long-range planning, is thickset, jovial, sharp-tongued, and further left...
With One Voice? The official White House announcement pointed out that 37 countries maintain diplomatic relations with the Vatican. Their representatives attend Vatican ceremonies, vouch for countrymen who request papal audiences. They call frequently at the red-walled office of Monsignor Giovanni Battista Montini, Under Secretary of State for ordinary affairs, to exchange information from other lands. Under a new committee-of-cardinals secretariat soon to be established, a U.S. ambassador would deal largely with a cardinal appointed to handle North American affairs, probably an American...
...tall, bent Monsignor Giulio Guidetti, administrator of Holy See property. Hobbling in on his cane, Guidetti said yes, he had supplied loans to the industrialist, but had taken no commission whatever. He had handed the money to Monsignor Cippico as directed in orders signed by Tardini and Monsignor Giovanni Montini, Substitute Secretary of State...
Afternoon by the Bay. A five-man papal inquiry commission soon established that Tardini's and Montini's names had been forged to the orders. Their findings led directly to blond, youngish Monsignor Eduardo Prettner Cippico, a well-born native of Trieste and a Vatican archivist. Though his salary was meager, Cippico owned an 18,000,000-lire apartment in Rome, an Alfa Romeo, a Fiat and a Chrysler. He liked to entertain expensively. The day before Easter last year, waiters at a fashionable restaurant at Posillipo, near Naples, had their hopes of an afternoon off dashed when...