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Quiet Charisma. Pius XII came from the lesser nobility of Rome, John XXIII from the peasantry of northern Italy. Paul VI is a bourgeois Pope, born to the comforts of Italy's middle class. His birthplace was Concesio, a country village near Brescia in northern Italy (and about 40 miles from Sotto il Monte, where Angelo Roncalli was born). The Pope's father, Giorgio Montini, was a lawyer and crusading journalist; his progressive political and social views were inspired by Don Luigi Sturzo, a near-legendary priest and sociologist who was one of the founders of Italian Christian...
...cooler relationship between Pope and Pro-Secretary was apparent in 1953, when neither Montini nor Tardini was among the new cardinals named by Pius. The Pope explained that both men had turned down the offer; it was not quite that simple. Pius had first offered a cardinal's hat to Tardini, who refused it, perhaps because he had divined the Pope's true wishes, perhaps to checkmate his rival, Montini. Since Tardini had refused, Montini could only answer no. Then, a year later, Pius announced.that Montini would become Archbishop of Milan, a post that traditionally carries with...
...Pius let Montini go without the expected red hat, but not without a moment of touching sentiment. Recalls the former French Ambassador to the Vatican, who was present at Montini's consecration in St. Peter's: "At one point in the ceremony, during a moment of absolute silence, a feeble voice was heard. It seemed to come from the heavens. From his sickbed, Pius XII was addressing a few words to his well-beloved son, who was becoming his brother in the episcopate. I have always thought that on that day, Pope Pius XII marked the destiny...
...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...
Shortly after his election last week, Paul VI told an old friend from the Secretariat of State that he hoped to follow the example of his three immediate predecessors: "Pius XI for his strong will. Pius XII for his knowledge and wisdom. John XXIII for his limitless goodness." There is no question of his willingness to pursue the course John took. At a funeral oration in Milan, he said: "Pope John has shown us some paths which it will be wise to follow. Death cannot stifle the spirit which he so infused in our era. Can we turn away from...