Word: curiae
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...certain number of Catholic bishops, chiefly auxiliaries, papal diplomats and Curia officials, preside over ancient dioceses that no longer exist as active churchly subdivisions. Such bishoprics are mostly in Moslem areas in northern Africa and the Middle East...
...flexible Vatican diplomacy inaugurated by Pope John XXIII and carried on by Paul VI in Hungary, where he is still seeking to work out a modus vivendi for the Church. Paul has also established a new Secretariat for Non-Christian Religions, headed by Paolo Cardinal Marella of the Curia. In the past, the church has sometimes preferred noisy and heroic martyrdom rather than graceful surrender of ancient privileges. Now Rome, with Christian and Moslem Lebanon acting as intermediary, is trying to work out a "Tunisian formula" with Moslem-run Sudan, which this year abruptly exiled all of the country...
Speaking to 26 cardinals of the Roman Curia, the Pope announced that in light of new medical developments, birth control "is being subjected to study, as wide and profound as possible, as grave and honest as it must be on a subject of such importance." Without mentioning the birth-control pill by name, the Pope indicated that there might possibly be a need to reinterpret natural law "in the light of scientific, social and psychological truths, which in these times have undergone new and very ample study and documentation...
Bearded Eugene Cardinal Tisserant of the Roman Curia, 80, dean of the Sacred College, stopped in on old clerical friends in New York, Chicago...
Louis and Spokane, emerged from the shadows for only a few public functions: one of them was representing Pope Paul at the dedication of Notre Dame's new $8,000,000 library. Another Curia officer, Paolo Cardinal Marella, 69, presided over the unveiling of the Pieta at the New York World's Fair, and brought Francis Cardinal Spellman a sentimental gift from Pope Paul: a topaz brooch once worn by Pius XII on state occasions. Marella returned home with four honorary doctorates, including one from Catholic University, which last year barred four progressive theologians from giving lectures there...