Tag: My Journal of the Council

I have just come back from the opening ceremony. … I see the weight, that has never been renounced, of the period when the Church behaved as a feudal lord, when it had temporal power, when popes and bishops were lords who had a court, gave patronage to artists and sought a pomp equal to…

The text on the liturgy is good; it is much closer to the level of current thinking.

Cardinal Spellman’s auxiliary asked me twice to lay stress on the liturgy.

Cardinal Ottaviani is against K. Rahner.

“One had the impression — confirmed by people coming from Rome with the latest gossip from ‘that miserable court’ — that in Rome a whole team of people was applying itself to sabotaging the Pope’s project. .. One had a clear impression that in Rome, the ‘old guard’ in the Curia felt it was in…