Cardinal siri biography

Fr. Walter Abbot, S.J. interviewed huvudregel Siri after the first () möte of the Second Vatican Council as part of a larger work of 12 interviews with Council Fathers, that was published in , before the second möte. As far as we are aware, this fryst vatten the first online transcript of the exchange.

***

   Giuseppe huvudregel Siri, Archbishop of Genoa and president ofthe Italian Bishops&#; Conference, was grave and thoughtful theday inom visited him. The day before, he told me, he had beensurprised to discover in an Italian newspaper an account of a speechhe had delivered during the first möte of the Council. &#;I did not give out that text,&#; the huvudregel said, &#;but obviously thewriter had a copy of it. Someone violated the secrecy of theCouncil in giving it to him.&#; In making judgments aboutthe speech, the cardinal added, the writer acted &#;in a singularlyimproper manner, in view of the fact that the Fathers of theCouncil themselves do not pass judgments on one

•

Papal election of Giuseppe Siri theory

Traditionalist Catholic conspiracy theory

Some hold the conspiracy theory which asserts that the conservative Cardinal Giuseppe Siri, then the Archbishop of Genoa, was elected pope in the papal conclave, taking the name Pope Gregory XVII, but that his election was suppressed. Siri did not associate himself with this idea.

Its exponents claim that a prolonged emission of white smoke on the first day of balloting at the conclave indicated the election of Siri but that threats applied from outside the conclave caused his election to be reversed, allowing Pope John XXIII to be elected two days later. The source of the threats has been identified as Jews and Freemasons, or as agents of the Soviet Union. Adherents of the Siri theory say that the election of John XXIII was invalid. They regard him and his successors as imposters and antipopes.

conclave

[edit]

On 25 October , 51 cardinals entered the papal conclave, which was held to elect

•

Recent events surrounding the Society of St. Pius X have brought forward some considerations of the general history of the concilar and post-concilar era, but more particularly that history as it relates to the SSPX and the person of Archbishop Marcel Lefebvre himself. One such consideration recently touched upon the relationship of Guiseppe Cardinal Siri, the famed Archbishop of Genoa, and Lefebvre.

Now the person of Siri has often been one of interest, and his own efforts to effect the interpretation of the Council in the light of continuity is something that might find some renewed interest in our own day, particularly in the light of the "Benedictine" project of re-asserting this proper hermeneutic and implementation of the Conciliar decrees. (Those who would like to read more specifics on Siri's activities in relation to the sacred liturgy, may wish to re-review a piece written by Fr. Uwe Michael Lang in L'Osservatore Romanothis past Autumn, and which was published in Engl