Word: curiae
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...friendliness toward Protestants and Or thodox Christians. Many of these cardinals will be under great pressure from their younger bishops and priests to vote for a man in tune with the mood of the council. They may find such a man among 14 moderates, most of them self-effacing Curia executives who have kept their views largely to themselves...
There are plenty of misgivings about other cardinals who rule Italy's great archdioceses. Milan's aggressive Giovanni Montini, 65, a much-mentioned liberal with many Curia enemies, has been mercurial and indecisive as a pastoral leader. Easygoing, emotional Giacomo Lercaro, 71, of Bologna professes a deep interest in social reform, but, complains one Vatican official, "his conception of social work is giving alms." The likable Patriarch of Venice, Giovanni Urbani, 63, is thought to be excessively dependent upon his advisers...
Decision & Enemies. Among the Curia papabili, Amleto Cicognani, 80, the Vatican's Secretary of State under
Poor Politician? Not all Catholics appreciated John's problematic. Curia cardinals thought his exploration of Christian unity was a danger to the faith, and openly regarded a free, unmanaged council as a threat to their authority. "They are men of zeal, I am sure," John told a friend recently. "But they are not running the church. I am in charge, and I won't have anyone else trying to stop the momentum of the council's first session." Other Catholics rejected the spirit that led to his teaching encyclicals and the "opening to the East...
...Office issued a monitum (warning) against excesses in Catholic Scriptural interpretation. Last June the Holy Office ordered two of the Biblicum's New Testament scholars, Jesuit Fathers Maximilian Zerwick and Stanislaus Lyonnet, suspended from their teaching assignments. At a victory celebration in a Rome pensione that night, one Curia official gleefully said: "This time we shall break their monopoly." Every bishop arriving in Rome for the Vatican Council last fall was handed a pamphlet, written by Monsignor Francesco Spadafora of the conservative Lateran University, asking that the fathers condemn the methods employed by Biblical critics...