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During his nine years as apostolic delegate to the U.S., Archbishop Egidio Vagnozzi, 61, proved to be a somewhat enigmatic and unpopular figure to American Catholics. There were few expressions of regret when Rome announced that Vagnozzi, who last month was named a cardinal by Pope Paul VI, would become a member of the Vatican's Consistorial and Extraordinary Ecclesiastical Affairs Congregations. His successor is Archbishop Luigi Raimondi, currently apostolic delegate to Mexico...
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...
Myers' proposal was greeted warmly by San Francisco's Roman Catholic Archbishop Joseph McGucken. "Do you want me to register a look of pleasant surprise?" he smilingly asked a press conference. Some Protestants and other Episcopalians were not so enthusiastic. Michigan's Episcopal Bishop Richard Emrich, a convinced ecumenist himself, warned that "one of the great facts of the world is not that you desire unity but that there are real differences of belief." One such difference was pointed out by the Rev. Carl Howie of San Francisco's Calvary Presbyterian Church: "In a large segment...
Died. Joseph Elmer Cardinal Ritter, 74, prelate of the archdiocese of St. Louis and one of his church's leading advocates of reform; of a heart attack; in St. Louis. Frail in body, but pure steel in will, he was the man who as Archbishop of St. Louis in 1947 stunned segregationists by ordering the integration of local parochial schools, and threatened to excommunicate opponents when they proposed legal action. Named a cardinal in 1960, he emerged at the Second Vatican Council as the unquestioned leader of progressive forces among the U.S. hierarchy, later executing many reform measures, giving...
...prelates are seconds-in-command to venerable conservatives who presumably will now be induced to retire. Both Angelo Dell'Acqua and Antonio Samoré, the two Vatican under secretaries of state, are considerably more open to church renewal than their superior, Amleto Cardinal Cicognani, 84. France's Archbishop Gabriel Garrone, 65, pro-prefect of the important Congregation for Seminaries, was one of the liberal leaders at the Second Vatican Council before he transferred to Rome as heir apparent to Giuseppe Cardinal Pizzardo...