Word: siris
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...enter the Atomic Age." A number of conservative bishops believe that the church should stand aloof from the pressures of a temporal world, holding fast to its traditions. Led by such impressive figures as Alfredo Cardinal Ottaviani of the Holy Office, Ernesto Cardinal Ruffini of Palermo and Giuseppe Cardinal Siri of Genoa, the "integralists" include nearly every bishop in Italy and Spain, a majority of the prelates from the U.S. and Latin America...
...Ottaviani is not likely to succeed Pope John, partly because his political views are too conservative by modern Vatican standards, partly because too many cardinals fear the authoritarian rule he might impose. Ottaviani might well try to throw the next papal election to another conservative, such as Giuseppe Cardinal Siri, 55, Archbishop of Genoa. A brilliant administrator, Siri is notorious for his opposition to ecclesiastical innovation: although most of the dockworkers in his diocese must work mornings, he refuses to allow pastors to say Mass in the afternoon...
...century ago. has fewer than 10,000 today. Italy's priests, 18% of whom are over 70, are dying faster than they can be replaced: in Florence, for instance. 135 priests died and only 85 were ordained during the past decade. In Genoa, bastion of crusading Giuseppe Cardinal Siri, seminary attendance has dropped 40% in the past 20 years, and 80% of the seminarians drop out before completing the twelve-year course. The seminaries in Turin are two-thirds empty...