[2] Mamie was personal secretary to the theologian Cardinal Charles Journet during the last session of the Second Vatican Council from September to December 1965.
[5] His appointment was not welcomed by all parties, as there were tensions and divisions about the liturgical innovations proceeding from the Council, the provocative presence of Lefebvre's seminary on one hand, and attacks by theologians at the University of Fribourg against Pope Paul's recent encyclical condemning artificial birth control on the other, notably from the theologian Stephan Pfürtner [de].
[2] A contemporary described Mamie as "wounded" and "shaken" by the turmoil provoked when he only sought, in his view, to guarantee orthodox instruction of his seminarians.
[6] Mamie determined that the Society of St. Pius X (SSPX), established on an experimental basis by his predecessor Bishop François Charrière in 1970, should be suppressed.
[7] In 1976, Mamie warned Lefebvre that saying Mass though Catholic Church authorities had forbidden him from exercising his priestly functions would further exacerbate his relationship with Rome.