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...motto on Alfredo Cardinal Otta viani's Vatican coat of arms" is Semper Idem (Always the Same), and the rigid Ottaviani has clearly and consistently argued that the Roman Catholic Church should resist change. As secretary of the Supreme Sacred Congregation of the Holy Office, Ottaviani, 72, has diligently searched out those whom he considers modernists and heretics. As undisputed leader of conservative opinion at the Second Vatican Council, he has opposed reform as vigorously as he once opposed the idea of holding the council. But last week, as the Vatican Council's forces for change demonstrated their...
...Ottaviani's first collision came three weeks ago while he was heatedly warning the council that the schema proposing changes in Catholic liturgy bordered on heresy. Reminded by the presiding cardinal that his speech exceeded the ten-minute time limit, Ottaviani sat down. His fellow prelates clapped, applauding the ruling. Outraged and hurt, Ottaviani boycotted council sessions for ten days. Last week the proposal for liturgical reforms, which promise to make the Mass "more vital and informative for the faithful in accordance with present pastoral requirements," passed...
...Arcs. Nor did Cardinal Ottaviani have any luck in battles outside the council. Last week, he asked Pope John XXIII to order Austria's liberal Jesuit Theologian Karl Rahner out of Rome, and to censure the Jesuit-run Biblical Institute (which by its existence implies critical study of the Scriptures). The Pope's answer quickly spread through Vatican circles: "It is only recently that I have learned of this attack on the Biblical Institute," he told Ottaviani. "Why didn't you let me know sooner? As far as Father Rahner is concerned, I have not been shown...
...nave of St. Peter's over how the church must enter the Atomic Age." A number of conservative bishops believe that the church should stand aloof from the pressures of a temporal world, holding fast to its traditions. Led by such impressive figures as Alfredo Cardinal Ottaviani of the Holy Office, Ernesto Cardinal Ruffini of Palermo and Giuseppe Cardinal Siri of Genoa, the "integralists" include nearly every bishop in Italy and Spain, a majority of the prelates from the U.S. and Latin America...
...determined by the Pope of transition, John XXIII. So far, his record is puzzling. One of his first major personnel changes was removing the aged, archconservative Giuseppe Cardinal Pizzardo as head of the church's doctrine-guarding ministry, the Holy Office-only to name the equally conservative Cardinal Ottaviani as Pizzardo's successor. As Papal Nuncio to France, John seemed to be sympathetic to the worker-priest movement, despite strong Vatican disapproval; after he became Pope, John issued an order that killed the experiment for good. In talks with audiences, John has sometimes spoken favorably of translating parts...