Alfredo Cardinal Ottaviani

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His Eminence Alfredo Cardinal Ottaviani (29 October, 1890 - 3 August, 1979) was Secretary of the Holy Office of the Roman Curia from 1959 to 1966 when that dicastery was reorganized as the Congregation of the Doctrine of the Faith, in which he served as Pro-Prefect, until 1968. He was the leader of the Curial conservatives during the Second Vatican Council.

In September of 1969, together with Antionio Cardinal Bacci, wrote a letter to Pope Paul VI , espressing reservations to the proposed new Roman rite of the Mass, which had yet to be completed. This letter became more widely known as the Ottaviani Intervention. However, after the New Mass was officially promulgated, his Eminence "rejoiced profoundly...especially in the doctrinal precisions contained in [Paul VI's] discourses" about the new Ordo Missae (Whitehead, 129, Letter from his eminence Alfredo Cardinal Ottaviani to Dom Gerard Lafond, O.S.B., in Documentation Catholique, #67, 1970, pages 215-216, 343).