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...ambiguous this document will be in its final wording remains to be seen. Italian Bishop Luigi Carli of Segni, one of the council's most outspoken conservatives, has submitted a host of amendments seeking to emphasize the truth of Catholic thinking and the error of other views. U.S. Jesuit John Courtney Murray, who is regarded as the architect of the declaration, has had bishop friends propose amendments strengthening it. And the council has yet to hear from Paul, who has a great sense of compassion for the conservatives and is eager to nourish their support for church renewal...
Still trying to legalize the Vatican's refusal to pay the tax, the Christian Democrats in the government wrote a bill-Law No. 1773-that would exempt Vatican dividends and slipped it through Parliament during the presidential crisis that followed the resignation of President Antonio Segni. But before the bill could be promulgated, the Socialists read it and blocked...
Unroofed Hall. The Christian Democratic Party was both the villain and the victim of the messy election. Enabled to rule Italy only by joining in coalition with Pietro Nenni's Socialists, the Christian Democrats were determined to elect one of their own party President. Antonio Segni, who had resigned in December because of ill health, had shown that the office was not merely ornamental but could also be a position of influence and, on occasion, of real power...
...predicted that a change in the situation may come if, as he expects, the Italian Communist vote helps elect Fanfani to replace Premier Segni who has just resigned...
Intended by Italy's constitution makers to be a merely ceremonial office, the presidency of Italy has actually turned out to be an important steady ing influence during times of confusion in Italian politics. Hence, when President Antonio Segni was felled by a cerebral stroke last August, Italians were concerned not only for the frail, oft-ailing Segni, whom they had long affectionately called malato di ferro -"the iron invalid" - but for their nation as well...