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From G. B. Montini to Pope Paul VI

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  25 March 2011

Peter Hebblethwaite
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Marston Street, Oxford OX4 1JU

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1 This means that Fede tradizione profezia will be unfairly neglected since, except on one question, it deals exclusively with Angelo Roncalli, the future John XXIII. Earlier versions of the four chapters have already been considered in Hebblethwaite, P., John XXIII, Pope of the Council, London 1984,Google Scholar and one of the authors, Stefano Trinchese, announces elsewhere (Pio XII, p. 256, n. 3) that the Istituto per le Scienze Religiose of Bologna is planning a collective work, A. G. Roncalli - Giovanni XXIII 1881-1963 of which these essays are evidently a foretaste.

2 , Fappani and , Molinari, Montini giovane, 15.Google Scholar

3 Ibid. 261.

4 Ibid. 259.

5 The full story can be read in , Fappani and , Molinari, Montini giovane, 281–93Google Scholar.

6 Ibid.. 292.

7 Paul VI et la modernité, 33.

8 , Fappani and , Molinari, Montini giovane, 317.Google Scholar

9 An essential complement to their work is Anni e opere di Paolo VI, edited by Nello Vian, introduction by Arturo C.Jemolo, Rome 1978. It provides a detailed chronology of Montini's whole life, gives many hints on where to look for data, and contains 152 evocative photographs. Montini giovane has 17 photographs.

10 , Fappani and , Molinari, op. cit. 347.Google Scholar

11 , Riccardi, Pio XII, 96.Google Scholar

12 Ibid. 226-7.

13 Ibid. 268.

14 Paul VI et la modernité, 71.

15 , Riccardi, Pio XII, 244.Google Scholar

16 Ibid. 228 n. 32.

17 Ibid. 42-3.

18 Ibid. 45.

19 ‘Vigorous and incisive as he is with pen in hand,’ De Gaulle confided, ‘in practical matters he is humble, shy and clumsy.’ De Gaulle hoped Maritain would soon be replaced (Actes et documents xi. 686).

20 , Riccardi, Pio XII, 298.Google Scholar

21 13 March 1947, Paul VI et la modernité, 89.

22 Ibid. 88-9.

23 Ibid. 93.

24 Quoted by Fouilloux, E., Paul VI et la modernité, 92Google Scholar.

26 I was one of ‘de Lubac's disciples’ at the time. If anyone had publicly charged us with ‘anti-intellectualism’ he would have been deluged with such a flood of ratiocination that he would have soon disappeared. ‘Anti-intellectual’ really meant ‘anti-scholastic’.

27 See , Hebblethwaite, John XXIII, 253.Google Scholar

28 , Riccardi, Pio XII, 347–77.Google Scholar

29 Montini arcivescovo, 63.

30 Paul VI et la modernité, 130.

31 Montini arcivescovo, 160.

32 Ibid. 36-7.

33 , Fappani and , Molinari, Montini giovane, 171.Google Scholar

34 Montini arcivescovo, 294.

35 Montini arcivescovo, 202-41. But not completeness. Like most of the other authors discussed here, Rinoldi is weak on ‘Anglo-Saxon’ sources. Witness the extraordinary passage on p. 210 of Montini arcivescovo where he resorts to an Italian ‘neo-modernist’ priest's diary to report the startling news that ‘some Anglican pastors, to be precise six’ had visited Milan as the guests of Montini. It would not have taken much detective work to discover that this 1956 visit - evidence of Montini's early interest in ecumenism - is in fact extremely well documented. Cf. , Bernard and Pawley, Margaret, Rome and Canterbury through the Centuries, London 1974.Google Scholar In 1955 Montini met the doughty Bishop George of Chichester who reported him as saying: ‘Although the Holy Father has often urged collaboration between Catholics and separated brethren, he has never indicated how this should be done’. Bell commented: ‘He was like a curate being discreetly critical ofhis vicar’ (ibid. p. 327).

36 Montini arcivescovo, 339-42.

37 , Alberigo, Fede tradizione profezia, 190.Google Scholar

38 Montini arcivescovo, 178-87.

39 Ibid. 256-86.

40 , Hebblethwaite, John XXIII, 444.Google Scholar

41 Paul VI et la modernité, 672.

42 In the meantime there is the bibliography compiled by Pál Arató SJ, revised and provided with indexes by Vian, Paolo, Paulus PP VI 1963-1978 Elenchus Bibliographicus (Pubblicazioni dell'Instituto Paolo VI, I), Brescia 1981.Google Scholar It contains 11,341 items, and is a monument to industry and the ephemeral nature ofso much writing about popes in their lifetime. It remains indispensable.

43 Montini arcivescovo, 322.

44 Paul VI el la modernité, 385-98.

45 Ibid. 135-7.

46 Montini's letters to Trebeschi were published after his death as Letlere a un giovane amico, edited by Trebeschi, Cesare, Brescia 1978Google Scholar.

47 Paul VI et la modernité, 139.

49 Ibid. 221-2.

50 Ibid. 819.