Word: curiae
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...this new interpretation has grown a consensus among many Catholic scholars and clerics that the Church must meet all that is justified in the Protestant protests and thus neutralize them. The Catholics, Brown said, are now acting on the original Protestant demands for reform of the Pope's Curia, removal of the Papacy from politics, and revision of the Mass...
This restructuring of authority has led to conflict and tension at almost every level of the church. Among bishops, for example, there is widespread resentment against efforts of the Roman Curia to limit the council's reforms and the scope of the bishops' collegial power. Last week, the U.S. hierarchy's ecumenical commission met in Washington to formulate rules for interfaith contacts; it ignored an order limiting those contacts handed down recently by Archbishop Egidio Vagnozzi, the apostolic delegate (TIME, March...
Died. Clemente Cardinal Micara, 85, vicar general since 1951 and unofficial bishop of Rome (the title belongs to the Pope), known to fellow members of the Vatican Curia as the "Grand Elector" for his key role in lining up conservatives behind his friend and fellow liberal Giovanni Cardinal Montini in the 1963 papal elections; after a long illness; in Rome...
...Prague's Archbishop Josef Beran, now under house arrest. Czech exiles in Rome are preparing Beran's quarters for the consistory, and last week there were rumors that Casaroli had all but completed an agreement with the Reds. Beran would be called to the Curia; in return, the government might allow the Vatican to appoint new bishops and restore certain church properties. Whether the deal is completed seems to depend on how much the Czechs will concede...
...returned home far more disturbed about the future of the council than they had been at the end of the stalemated second session. The Pope's final actions at the council made it clear that collegiality was largely an ideal, not an ecclesiastical fact. His support of the Curia's maneuvering left many bishops resentful, their faith shaken in his progressive intentions...