Word: curia
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Although Merry del Val is 63 he is still the youngest Cardinal in the Curia. In 1920 he became Cardinal Camerlengo of the Holy Roman Church (administrator of the property and revenues of the Holy See). Should the present Pope die, Merry del Val as Cardinal Camerlengo would be in charge during the interim before the new Pope was consecrated...
...city, not that he was sent to the United States by the Vatican. The authorities of the Vatican do not know of his presence here. 2) Mr. Leccisi is merely an honorary Papal Chamberlain. As such he can no more be said to be a representative of the Roman Curia than one who has received a medal from Congress may be said to represent Congress. 3) The organization of a Diocesan Matrimonial Court is outlined, and in detail, by the Canon Law of the Church to such an extent that every official connected with the Court, or any one allowed...
...Roman Curia has come to this! Here is a representative of the official papal household establishing himself in New York and openly advertising that he is there 'for the purpose of dealing with the annulment of marriages in the Roman Catholic Church...
...impossible for us to think of words strong enough to condemn adequately the violation of both political and religious proprieties. The Roman Curia used to be thought of as at least astute; there is nothing astute about this. The Roman Church used to be thought of as a force in the protection of Christian marriage and the Christian home; this is a direct assault upon both. It would be bad enough if it were but the ill-considered commercial venture of an individual; but a papal chamberlain is esteemed a member of the Pope's household itself. . . . [That office...
...strongest of the reformers within the Church itself, pointing out fearlessly wherein its defects lay even to the extent of laving before Pore Innocent IV and the cardinals a written memorial in which he ascribed all the evils of the church to the malignant influence of the Curia, and violently opposing Rome when I came into conflict with the national clergy...