Word: dadaglio
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...thousands signed petitions and flocked to see him. "He is a good man," said one elderly Basque. "Good men are rare, and he must stay." Pope Paul interrupted a Lenten retreat to oversee discussions on the Spanish crisis. Long-distance conference calls hummed between Rome and Archbishop Luigi Dadaglio, the papal nuncio in Madrid, as Vatican diplomats sought ways to avoid an open rupture with Franco without compromising "the demands of justice...
...Spanish clergy and hierarchy have changed. Vatican attitudes toward the church's posture in Spain began to shift during the reign of Pope John XXIII, particularly in the liberal climate created by his Second Vatican Council. Then, in 1967, Pope Paul VI named Italian Archbishop Luigi Dadaglio as Apostolic Nuncio-papal ambassador-to Spain. Dadaglio arrived in Madrid with a virtual mandate to bring new blood into the Spanish hierarchy. With an assist from Franco's able ambassador to the Holy See, former Washington Envoy Antonio Garrigues y Diaz Canabate, Dadaglio engineered the appointment or advancement of more...