Word: curiae
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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This top-heavy, slow-moving and ultra-conservative body controls all the seminaries that teach young priests, all the church's missionary activities, all of its ecclesiastical and liturgical legislation. Through the Holy Office, headed by conservative Alfredo Cardinal Ottaviani, the Curia has frequently silenced or harassed Catholic intellectuals, sometimes
...forbidding them to publish their works and then forbidding them to say they have been forbidden. "Roma locuta est; causa finita est" has been the Curia's traditional pronouncement in deciding Catholic affairs around the world: "Rome has spoken; the matter is settled...
...Many Bulges. It was a major accomplishment that the Vatican Council ever got going at all. The Curia clearly did not want it. One Curia man, according to a Vatican story, told the Pope: "We can't possibly get a council ready by 1963." "All right," said John, "we'll have...
...When the Curia cardinals finally decided that John really meant to have a council, they staffed the preparatory commissions with Curia men and decided that the council would be conducted entirely in Latin without simultaneous translation ?thus effectively cutting off many Latin-shy bishops from the proceedings. In preparing the 69 proposals to be discussed at the council (since reduced to 20), they followed their own theologically conservative bent, frequently ignored the suggestions that the Pope had asked the world's bishops to submit...
Pope John let the Curia have its way. To Boston's Richard Cardinal Cushing, he explained: "Sono net sacco qui"?"I'm in a bag here." But when the council fathers arrived in Rome, they began getting discreet telephone calls from Monsignor Loris Capovilla, the Pope's private secretary, subtly disassociating the Pope from the Curia. The progressives among the bishops correctly deduced that John wanted a wholesale reform, but they did not at first realize their own strength. Gradually, encouraged by the knowledge that the world was watching, they became emboldened. "We heard men dare to say things...