Word: curiae
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Three months after being elected Pope, Paul VI announced that he intended to modernize his Curia, the Vatican's 1,000-man bureaucracy, by bringing in younger clerics, including many more non-Italians. Last week the Pope took a major step toward that goal when he accepted the resignations of two venerable members of Rome's Old Guard...
Some Roman Catholic prelates have done all they could to discourage U.S. circulation of the Dutch catechism (TIME, Aug. 18), a lively, undogmatic compendium of doctrine that reflects the most recent radical insights of theologians and scripture scholars. First the Roman Curia ordered a thorough study of the Dutch original to make sure that it contained no errors. Then Bishop Robert F. Joyce of Burlington, Vt., withdrew his imprimatur (permission to publish) from the American edition, and Holland's Bernard Jan Cardinal Alfrink complained that the book was going to press with an unauthorized use of his original imprimatur...
...Theologian Paul Ramsey offers a thoughtful critique of the trend to neglect basic ethical ana ysis in favor of particular pronouncements on policy. No fundamentalist, Ramsey is a professor of ethics at Princeton and an ecumenical-minded writer on contemporary Christian problems. Nonetheless, he contends that the "social action curia" of the World and National Councils of Churches has re duced ecumenical ethics to a partisan political movement...
...share ruling power with the Pope. As a kind of ecclesiastical senate, the synod is expected to advise the Pope on current problems troubling the church and to extend the legislative accomplishments of the council. But as at the beginning of Vatican II, change-fearing conservatives of the Roman Curia-perhaps acting under papal orders-have worked hard to limit the synod's scope...
...Curia-prepared secret reports outlining the agenda topics vary considerably in imagination and scope. Least impressive is the one on seminaries-a two-page memo that offers no specific proposals for the improvement of priestly training. The document on canon law, however, recommends that reformation of the church's code he undertaken in a spirit of charity rather than conformity to regulation, and that the duties of ecclesiastical superiors as well as their subjects be spelled out, since "the rights of every member of the faithful must be recognized and safeguarded." The document on mixed marriages raises the possibility...