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...overhaul of the Roman Curia, the Vatican's governing bureaucracy, which would be composed of the "best-fitted and most competent" clerics in the entire world, and not merely from Italy...
...Pope himself; some theologians expect that the council will formalize this belief in a definition that would please Orthodox Metropolitans, who believe that infallibility rests solely with the church rather than with the Bishop of Rome. Non-Italian bishops will press for an internationalization of the Roman Curia and for greater freedom for themselves to adapt church practices to the needs of their flocks. Missionary diocesans, for example, believe that most Indians, who take off their shoes to enter temples, would find Catholicism more acceptable if priests said the Mass barefoot or in stocking feet...
...Giving the U.S. six cardinals. The others: Spellman of New York, Meyer of Chicago, McIntyre of Los Angeles, Cushing of Boston, and Muench, former bishop of Fargo, N.Dak., now serving at the Vatican Curia...
Bishop Luigi Traglia, 64, born in Albano, near Rome, has worked in the church's administrative headquarters, the Curia, for the past 30 years. As vice regent of the diocese of Rome, he was in charge of the recent synod of the Roman clergy (TIME, Feb. 8), has made an impressive record as a builder of churches and organizer of new parishes...
...REVEREND ARCADIO LARRAONA, 72, born in Oteiza de la Solana, Spain, and a member of the Missionary Sons of the Immaculate Heart of Mary.* Father Larraona has been teaching, writing and lecturing in Rome for 40 years, where he has held a number of posts in the Curia. As the first Claretian cardinal in history, he will be permitted by his order to change his brown robes for scarlet, provided that they are of wool...