Unfortunately he made the (fatal) mistake of attempting to enlist the aid of the powerful and conservative Catholic Archbishop of Dublin John Charles McQuaid.
Against this background, he came into conflict with the conservative Archbishop of Gniezno, Henryk Kietlicz, who excommunicated him and his duke in 1210.
And in the last few days, voices as disparate as those of the conservative Roman Catholic Archbishop of Los Angeles, Roger Mahony, and the liberal historian Arthur Schlesinger Jr. have questioned the Bush Administration's means or its ends in the gulf crisis.
His work at the school was opposed by Archbishop John Charles McQuaid, the then conservative Archbishop of Dublin.
It was divided between two particularly strong candidates for the papacy: Giuseppe Siri, the conservative Archbishop of Genoa, and the liberal Giovanni Benelli, the Archbishop of Florence and a close associate of John Paul I.
The largest defection thus far became known Wednesday as Vatican officials acknowledged that they had reached an agreement with an entire group of 20 French monks who have abandoned the radically conservative Archbishop but have been permitted to continue their traditionalist practices under Rome's auspices.
The Siri Thesis is the belief that Cardinal Giuseppe Siri, the long-serving and conservative Archbishop of Genoa, was actually elected Pope in the 1958 papal conclave, but that his election was then suppressed.
It appears from information available from ICM News that it is currently beginning to align itself with the Global Anglican Future Conference, which has come in for some criticism from many leading voices within Anglicanism, including the conservative former Archbishop of Canterbury, George Carey.
The conservative Archbishop of Melbourne, George Pell, a staunch supporter and admirer of Santamaria, delivered the panegyric at his funeral, which was held at St. Patrick's Cathedral, Melbourne.