Word: tardini
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Dinner is at 8, bedtime about 10. Sometimes he varies the schedule by rising around 2 a.m., working a couple of hours, then going back to his mahogany bed and sleeping later than usual. "He is a man of most irregular work habits," says his Secretary of State, Cardinal Tardini. "The Holy Father seems to have a guardian angel who wakes him up and tells him it's time to go to work...
When the envoys accredited to the Holy See were invited by diplomatic custom to present their credentials to the new Pope, Papée and Girdvainis received no invitations. Vatican Secretary of State Domenico Tardini explained that the omissions were made because the two diplomats represented "phantom" governments that are no longer recognized by other countries accredited to the Holy See. That statement itself was enough for old Vatican hands to sense a new atmosphere; under Pius XII, who made a point of keeping the Polish and Lithuanian envoys as anti-Communist symbols, there had not been any reference...
...been brought about at least partly by Poland's Cardinal Wyszynski during his recently-completed 22-month visit to Rome. As the church's highest-ranking prelate who deals with Communism at first hand, Wyszynski is said to have made this case to Pope John and Cardinal Tardini: Polish Premier Gomulka is increasingly dependent on Poland's Catholics (82.4% of the population) to keep him at least partly independent of Moscow's smothering embrace, and the situation might be used to pry from Gomulka some additional concessions to Polish Catholics. But one of Wyszynski...
Surrounded by friends and family, Domenico Tardini, 70, received the Pope's messenger bringing him official notification of his elevation to the cardinalate. In his acceptance speech, the new Vatican Secretary of State recalled that he had refused a red hat from the late Pope Pius XII. Then he added: "The truth is, I wanted to be left in peace. Pope Pius never made anybody do or not do anything. But Pope John has said 'I wish it.' and I have to obey...
...busiest of prelates, is the leading new pastoral cardinal, although most of his experience has been in Vatican administration. The son of a well-to-do Brescia lawyer and member of Parliament, Montini entered the Vatican State Secretariat in 1924, where he served for 30 years, becoming (with Tardini) the late Pope's Pro-Secretary of State and one of his closest advisers. He is said to have begged off a red hat in Pius XII's 1952 consistory: instead, the Pope made him in 1954 Archbishop of Milan, Italy's largest diocese. Here, working his usual...