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...accompanied the Pope into his library for a private 18-minute chat, mostly about the quest for an enduring world peace. Addressing the Kennedy party later, the Pope recalled that he had met the President and his family at a papal audience 25 years ago, when, as Monsignor Montini, he was Substitute Secretary of State for Ordinary Affairs to Pope Pius XII. Paul praised the U.S. and-in a highly topical note-wished well the forces seeking equality for the Negro...
...Sacred Purple. One of John XXIII's first acts as Pope was to call a consistory-and the name of Giovanni Montini led the list of new cardinals. A disciple of Pius, Montini became a close friend of John's-in France they called him "Le Dauphin de Jean"-and at the Pope's suggestion, he again began to take an active part in the church's diplomatic life. Among the foreign dignitaries he welcomed in Italy: France's Charles de Gaulle, in 1959. Invited to the U.S. in 1960 to receive, along with Dwight...
Ironically, for all his diplomatic savvy, Montini was also responsible last fall for one of the classic blunders in modern church history. Acting on bad advice from Milanese students, he sent a wire to Dictator Francisco Franco, protesting a death sentence that had been meted out to a young Spaniard. Franco cabled back, noting that Montini's telegram had been released to the press before it had reached Madrid, and that the sentence had been imprisonment, not death. The Generalissimo's message icily concluded: "I respectfully kiss the sacred purple...
Where Wisdom Leads. Pope John took a more than usual interest in Montini's fortunes, and showered attention on him. Montini reportedly had a hand in preparing the papal keynote speech that opened the Vatican Council. He was the only cardinal from outside Rome who was given a suite of rooms inside the Vatican for the duration of the first session. Just as John kept away from the debates, Montini kept his own silence at the council, speaking out only once to condemn the conservative schema on the nature and authority of bishops in the church. He was also...
...John XXIII had an open mind about the work of such forward-looking Catholic thinkers as Tubingen's Hans Küng and Innsbruck's Karl Rahner; in his encyclicals he tried to find a new, less austere language of teaching that would speak to modern man. Montini, trained in the ways of scholastic thought, is more conservative by temperament, yet also seems to be tolerant toward the new. Through Augustin Cardinal Bea, he notified Scriptural scholars at the Pontifical Biblical Institute and Gregorian University that there would be no more arbitrary monita (warnings) issued by conservative theologians...