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...Urbani, a moderate-conservative, took a middle position on many of the issues dividing the College of Cardinals, and his greatest attribute as a papabile was that he offended fewest of the church's factions. In the final balloting, the vote went to a progressive, Giovanni Battista Cardinal Montini, who now reigns as Paul...
...Action. Benelli has been close to the present Pope since 1948, when Giovanni Battista Montini was serving as Deputy Secretary of State for Pius XII. Just five years after his ordination, Benelli was appointed to the Vatican diplomatic service as secretary to Montini, who quickly spotted him as a man of action and talent. Later Benelli served as a Vatican diplomat in Dublin, Paris, Rio de Janeiro, Madrid and Senegal. He was named to his present post...
Since then, Benelli has set about forming what Vatican observers are calling the "first real Montini government." Brisk and forceful, he has streamlined Curia procedures and organized his own corps of energetic subordinates. He works unusually long hours for Rome, and even lives next door to his office. He has, says one Vatican official, "acquired or deliberately taken into his own hands almost every decision made by the Secretariate these days." Understandably, Benelli is careful to couch many decisions in the voice of his boss. His suave letters will often read "The Holy Father thinks," or "According to the Pope...
...climax of Paul's visit was yet to come. That night he celebrated Mass before more than 90,000 people in Yankee Stadium-an occasion that turned the old arena, one Catholic noted, into "the home of Mantle, Maris and Montini." Instead of a solemn pontifical Mass, Paul chose to recite a simple Low Mass, to which the congregation responded rousingly in English. In keeping with the liturgical reforms of the Vatican Council, lessons were read by laymen, and twelve children-the only ones to receive Communion from the Pope that day-brought the bread and wine...
American bishops are traditionally better known for their building programs than for their theological skills. Cody is no exception. Son of a St. Louis fireman, he graduated in 1932 from the North American College, traditional breeding ground of bishops. For five years he worked with Giovanni Battista Montini, now Pope Paul VI, as one of the Vatican's assistant secretaries of state. Cody served seven years as an auxiliary bishop in St. Louis and became Bishop of Kansas City St. Joseph in 1956. There he earned a reputation as a tough-minded organization man who could raise...