Word: ottaviani
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...said happily. During the council's debates, many "progressive" bishops from northern Europe cribbed abundantly from his writings. Rahner personally wrote a draft resolution on the relationship of Scripture and tradition that last month was put before the council as an alternative to one proposed by Alfredo Cardinal Ottaviani, the powerful and conservative chief of the Vatican's Congregation of the Holy Office...
...calls him "the world's greatest theologian." Many conservative churchmen, on the other hand, view Rahner's work with suspicion and hostility. Three weeks ago, Monsignor Francesco Spadafora of Rome's Lateran University told a gathering of Mexican bishops that Rahner was a "formal heretic." Cardinal Ottaviani, too, suspects Rahner. has tried three times to get Rahner's work formally condemned, and last month vainly asked Pope John to send Rahner back to Innsbruck...
...Ottaviani's most significant defeat came in discussion of the draft constitution on Scripture and tradition proposed by the commission he heads. Liberals believe that Scripture and tradition should be "like two arcs in the same searchlight" -a change that would delight Protestants, who have long been put off by Catholic emphasis on tradition. But Ottaviani's proposals reflect the opposite view: that Scripture and tradition are two separate "founts of revelation," that Scripture must be read under "ecclesiastical guidance...
...Negative Tone." One by one, eminent cardinals rose to attack 'Ottaviani's draft. Joseph Elmer Cardinal Ritter of St. Louis, a longtime friend of Ottaviani, complained that the proposal had a "pessimistic, negative tone." Biblical Scholar Augustin Cardinal Bea, head of the Secretariat for Promoting Christian Unity, said that the proposed constitution "would close the door to intellectual Europe and the outstretched hands of friendship in the old and new world...
...powerful cardinals-Palermo's Ruffini and Genoa's Siri-supported Cardinal Ottaviani, who remarked to a friend, "We're always with Peter and under Peter, even when he is in the greatest danger." But others were not so sure. Said one Irish bishop: "We have had a mistaken idea that Cardinal Ottaviani represents the Holy See. We'll have to revise our definition of what the Holy...