Alfredo Cardinal Ottaviani
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Cardinal Alfredo 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 and worked with amongst others Archbishop Marcel Lefebvre CSSp.
In September 1969, together with Cardinal Antonio Bacci, he wrote a letter to Pope Paul VI, supporting a study by a group of theologians under the direction of Archbishop Marcel Lefebvre opposed to the proposed revision of the Roman Missal, on which work was being completed. This letter became widely known as the Ottaviani Intervention, used by Roman Catholics critical of the revision of the Roman Missal. The title of the study was A Short Critical Examination of the new Ordinary of the Mass.
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