Giuseppe Siri
Giuseppe Cardinal Siri ( born May 20, 1906 in Genoa, Italy, † May 2, 1989 ibid ) was Archbishop of Genoa, Cardinal. As an influential theologian and politician, he was " over the decades spokesman of the conservative wing of the church ."
Life
Giuseppe Siri was born on 20 May 1906 as the son of Nicolò and Giulia Siri in Genoa. After his schooling in Genoa, he studied Catholic theology at the Pontifical Gregorian University in Rome. On September 22, 1928, he received by Cardinal Carlo Minoretti the sacrament of Holy Orders, and then continued his studies in Rome continued until 1929.
On March 14, 1944, he was named by Pope Pius XII. Titular Bishop of Livia and auxiliary bishop in the Archdiocese of Genoa. He received his episcopal consecration Cardinal Pietro Boetto SJ on May 7, 1944. On May 14, 1946, he was named Pius XII. successor Boettos as Archbishop of Genoa. On January 12, 1953 it took Pius XII. in his second and last on a cardinal priest with the titular church of Santa Maria della Vittoria in the College of Cardinals consistory.
He was one of the central figures of the Second Vatican Council and represented in Coetus Internationalis Patrum a conservative position, together with the Cardinals Alfredo Ottaviani and Ernesto Ruffini.
In the two conclaves of 1978, he was favored by the Conservatives, was defeated in the elections but first Albino Luciani, a month later, then Karol Wojtyła.
His discussion of the " theological movement of our time," he left behind in his published also in German language book " Gethsemane " (Italian 1980 German, 1982). He grabbed it by name the theologians Henri de Lubac, Karl Rahner and Jacques Maritain, threw them against falsification of history and turned against a " historicist mindset " and " absolute existential relativism " on the basis of the " Kantian fraud " against "radical distortion of the revelation "and" pluralistic resolution "of the belief in the incarnation.
Siri died on May 2, 1989 in Villa Campostano and is buried in the San Lorenzo Cathedral in Genoa.
NS Escape Help
Argentine journalist Uki Goñi 2002, the published information on the activities of Archbishop during the Nazi escape aid, the so-called rat line. Siri supported the papal Pontificia Commissione di Assistenza Utilities Commission ( PCA) and founded the " National Committee for emigration to Argentina " and the charity " Auxilium ", which was led by Monsignor Carlo Petranovic. According to U.S. intelligence reports from 1947, so Uki Goñi, " stood in front of the Archbishop of an international organization whose mission is to organize the emigration of anti-Communist Europeans to South America. This general classification ... ' anti-communists ' includes all persons, political opponents of the Communists, including fascists, Ustasha and similar groups. "