Word: ottaviani
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...Pericle Felici, secretary of the Central Preparatory Commission, and benevolently told the workers that he was pleased with their progress and would pray for their work. Occasionally he took a hand in redrafting agenda items that might cause offense to certain prelates. One agenda item suggested by Alfredo Cardinal Ottaviani's theological commission, on the relation of Scripture to church tradition, was so potentially damaging to interfaith relations that Cardinal Bea personally wrote a more liberal statement, got the Pope's assurance that both views would be heard by the council fathers...
Having read your remarks about Cardinal Ottaviani [March 30]. I would like to comment on them. [TIME reported that Ottaviani refused to be photographed, and when told: all the other cardinals had posed, said, "That's why I am Ottaviani...
...TIME does not consider "crusty" an epithet, knows that no photographs of the cardinal were permitted, regrets that it misattributed the quotation. It was the cardinal's secretary who said, while discussing 'he refusal of photographs: "That's why he's Ottaviani...
...temporary studio out front of his residence. This time, Photographer Lees got a record 27. Most were cordial; the only outright refusal came from crusty old Cardinal Ottavi-ani. "But Mr. Lees is photographing all the cardinals except you," an intermediary protested. "That's why I am Ottaviani!" replied His Eminence. In all, Photographer Lees (himself an Anglican) photographed 58 cardinals, some of whom have since died. One of his latest, and prize, catches was Poland's courageous and embattled Primate Stefan Wyszynski. who was photographed on a rare two-week visit to Rome in February...
Confalonieri ranks relatively high in the ever-fluctuating scale of Vatican influence. Probably the most powerful of Roman cardinals is Holy Officer Alfredo Ottaviani. Almost totally blind, Ottaviani is not likely to succeed Pope John, partly because his political views are too conservative by modern Vatican standards, partly because too many cardinals fear the authoritarian rule he might impose. Ottaviani might well try to throw the next papal election to another conservative, such as Giuseppe Cardinal Siri, 55, Archbishop of Genoa. A brilliant administrator, Siri is notorious for his opposition to ecclesiastical innovation: although most of the dockworkers...