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3 days ago · On 25 September 1969, two retired cardinals, 79-year-old Alfredo Ottaviani and 84-year-old Antonio Bacci, wrote a letter with which they sent Pope Paul VI the text of the "Short Critical Study on the New Order of Mass".
3 days ago · Other candidates mentioned were Ernesto Ruffini of Palermo; and two curia officials, Valerio Valeri and Alfredo Ottaviani. Benedetto Masella, the 79-year-old chosen as camerlengo on 9 October, [1] a veteran diplomat, was also mentioned as a compromise candidate with "his chances diminished because of his age". [12] .
2 days ago · Paul VI presiding over the introductory ingress of the council, flanked by Cardinal Alfredo Ottaviani (left), Cardinal Camerlengo Benedetto Aloisi Masella and Monsignor Enrico Dante (future Cardinal), Papal Master of Ceremonies (right), and two Papal gentlemen.
Jul 18, 2024 · But by December Lefebvre was expressing full-blown hostility to Vatican II in a letter to Cardinal Alfredo Ottaviani, head of the Holy Office, claiming the Council's decisions themselves -- and...
3 days ago · One of the concerns about the draft was that it was written as if Divino Afflante Spiritu had not been promulgated. There was no evidence of the best modern biblical scholarship being used. On one side of the debate was Alfredo Cardinal Ottaviani. He presented a more defensive tone as contained in the draft document.
Jul 12, 2024 · Ten days after the commission’s final report was delivered to Paul VI by the commission’s general secretary, the outvoted chairman of the commission (and of the Holy Office), Cardinal Alfredo Ottaviani, received a dossier from Jesuit Father John Ford and Germain Grisez.
5 days ago · Clerical intrusion in Italian public life reached another high point in the 1950s when Pius’s failing health left the power of the Vatican increasingly in the hands of conservative cardinals, including Alfredo Ottaviani, head of the Holy Office.
