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...elected as a compromise candidate, at least compared to Pius XII, who was chosen unanimously in less than 24 hours. Vatican insiders are reconstructing the three voting days of the conclave, with their suspenseful smoke signals, this way: two main groups faced each other, one faction under archconservative Cardinal Ottaviani, the other (including the French cardinals) supporting liberal, reform-minded Cardinal Lercaro of Bologna. In the middle, fitting neither the "political" nor the "pastoral" label completely (since they had ample experience of both kinds), were Roncalli and Patriarch of the Armenians Agagianian. The fact that Agagianian is non-Italian...
Alfredo Cardinal Ottaviani, 67, pro-Secretary of the Congregation of the Holy Office (the church's guardian of dogma), is a stiff-backed expert in canon law and one of the Vatican's more reactionary figures. He is handicapped by near-blindness...
...racing cars and rocketry, which left the Vatican without a high-ranking scientific adviser during the rush of Sputnik-sparked technological developments; 2) the serious illness (since October) of Nicola Cardinal Canali, which reduced to one the number of active cardinal deacons.* Only ailing, half-blind Alfredo Cardinal Ottaviani, 67, now remains to stand in the deacons' place beside the Pope during long ceremonies...
...French bishops formally admitted their errors, issued a statement that, "to avoid all misunderstanding, one will not use the expression 'progressive catechism.' " The Holy Office decided that withdrawal of the catechism would not be necessary, ordered insertions correcting "Formal errors," last week sent stern Alfredo Cardinal Ottaviani "to work out a lasting compromise in the vexed question of religious teaching in France...
...along with the Communist regimes as long as they allow the Church to perform even a minimum of its functions, in order to spare the faithful persecutions and the prospect of martyrdom. There is also a "muscular"' faction in the Church-among its spokesmen are Cardinals Ottaviani, Canali and New York's Spellman-which believes that the Red regimes are slowly strangling Catholicism in Eastern Europe, and that it might be better to take a tough line, even if this should force the Church to go underground. Pius, gentle by nature, and diplomatic, will not accept this view...