Word: ruffini
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Died. Ernesto Cardinal Ruffini, 79, Archbishop of Palermo, Sicily, since 1945 and one of the most conservative of Roman Catholic prelates, a handsome, ascetic man who in 1959 spoke glowingly of Franco's Spain while threatening to excommunicate anyone who voted for Communist-backed candidates in Sicily's local elections, then was one of the leading conservative spokesmen within the Vatican Council, opposing the schema of religious liberty, liturgical reform, modern Biblical criticism, the declaration clearing the Jews of guilt for the Crucifixion; of a heart attack; in Palermo...
...auxiliary bishops, putting each in charge of areas within the New York archdiocese. Other prominent cardinals who are 75 or older are France's Achilles Lienart, Germany's Josef Frings, Czechoslovakia's Josef Beran, Argentina's Antonio Caggiano and Italy's Ernesto Ruffini...
...Paul-Emile Cardinal Léger asked that it be stripped of all sterile condemnations; Giacomo Cardinal Lercaro of Bologna complained that the present text was too narrowly Occidental and European in viewpoint. The schema was attacked as unacceptable by Sicily's implacably conservative Ernesto Cardinal Ruffini and by Archbishop John Heenan of Westminster. Heenan charged that it had been written by clerics with no knowledge of the world, delivered a savage attack on theological experts at the council who would like to modify the church's position on birth control...
...Syria doggedly argued that the declaration was inopportune; his implication was that Moslem rulers in the Middle East would see it as Vatican recognition of Israel, an interpretation that even the revised draft takes pains to dispel. There were smiles and titters when Sicily's Ernesto Cardinal Ruffini rose to charge that it was too kind to the Jews, who instead should be urged to abandon their offensive practices against Christians. By the end of the debate, however, most observers felt that the final declaration would be considerably strengthened-if only because opposition to it was so irrelevant...
...Attila is at the gates," thundered Ernesto Cardinal Ruffini, Archbishop of Palermo. Well, not exactly. Sicily was holding regional elections, and the Communists threatened to repeat the massive gains they had scored in Italy's national elections seven weeks ago. Red Boss Palmiro Togliatti himself was on hand to campaign. Back and forth across the island scurried hundreds of Communist squadristi (shock troops), trying to swing undecided voters...