Word: cardinale
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A Whim of the Pope. A cardinal, according to an old Roman riddle, is a whim of the Pope; he must vow absolute obedience to the will of the man who holds the See of St. Peter, must get explicit papal permission to leave Rome or its suburbs. But a...
In the early persecuted days of the church, cardinals-according to one theory of how the title originated-were men who aided the Pope by knowing their way around the bureaucracy of the Roman Empire. Because of their ability to swing between affairs of church and state, they became known...
∙THE SUPREME SACRED CONGREGATION OF THE HOLY OFFICE. "In Rome," says an old Vatican saw,"fear goes by the name of the Holy Office." Founded in the 13th century to combat heresy, the Holy Office ran the Inquisition, still edits the Index of Forbidden Books, preserves Catholic dogma from...
∙THE SACRED CONSISTORIAL CONGREGATION. As the church's Department of the Interior, the Consistorial Congregation supervises and changes the boundary lines between dioceses, advises the Pope on naming new bishops (except in missionary and Eastern Rite lands). Headed by Carlo Cardinal Confalonieri, a smooth, elegant bureaucrat with 35...
∙THE SACRED CONGREGATION FOR THE ORIENTAL CHURCH. Founded in 1862, it supervises the liturgical practices and canon law of 11 million Catholics who belong to five major Eastern Rites, worship in more than ten different languages, including English (used by Ukrainian Byzantines in Pittsburgh) and Ge'ez (used...