Word: curiae
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...share ruling power over the church with the Pope. At first, the bishops and their theologians were delighted with the announcement. Then they began to wonder. Would Paul give the synod a share of the policy making powers that are now tightly clutched by the conservative, Italian dominated Roman Curia? Or would the synod become the church's equivalent of the subservient Soviet parliament ?an assembly summoned only to approve, not to decide? The answer is solely in Paul's hands, for he characteristically specified that he alone would determine when the synod may meet and what...
...says: "I feel like a bull in a ring. Sometimes he goes one way, and I try to follow him, and then he goes the other way. Cagey, amorphous personalities make me unhappy." Many Catholic progressives are now convinced that Paul has deliberately sided all along with the conservative Curia, and they openly resent it. Austrian Historian Friedrich Heer fumes at "this small, narrow-minded, petit bourgeois person." A Catholic layman from Colorado complains: "He makes grand gestures and then does nothing to obtain the goal." Argues Edward Keating, editor of the rambunctiously liberal California monthly Ramparts...
...meeting in Jerusalem with Orthodox Patriarch Athenagoras. But he also disturbed Protestants by the "return to Rome" implications of his 1964 encyclical Ecclesiam Suam (His Church). One of his most premising innovations was a new Secretariat for non-Christian religions; but Paul entrusted the project to a Curia professional, Paolo Cardinal Marella, and almost nothing has been heard of it since. Two years ago, Paul announced that he intended to reform the Curia; so far, his only visible step has been to have Francesco Cardinal Roberti, a curial man himself, ask the chiefs of the Roman congregation to suggest some...
...Pastoral Office of Bishops in the Church. Closely related in theme to the constitution On the Church the schema spells out the relationship of bishops to the Pope and the Curia, outlines the scope and responsibility of national conferences of the hierarchy...
...Curia is the body of tribunals and offices through which the Pope governs the Catholic Church...