Word: curiae
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...incorporate more of today's democratic ideals in its structure, they urge a more distinct separation of executive, legislative and judicial functions. Under the present code, explained Jesuit Ladislas Orsy of Catholic University, there is a certain "imbalance" in church government: in practice, the offices of the Roman Curia both plan church regulations and enforce them. A wiser mode of government would be to have the law-creating function carried out by a separate, non-Curial agency-such as a senate of bishops. Another problem is that the church's courts-from Rome's Rota down...
...Bishop Stephen Leven. "But what counts is how the marriage works out in life and practice." There are plenty of signs that Pope Paul agrees. He calls the council not so much an end as a beginning. Paul has long promised to reform the Vatican's entrenched, antiquated Curia, a move the council also demanded in On the Pastoral Office of Bishops. As a first step, Paul last week announced a major overhaul of the stern, bureaucratic guardian of dogma, the Holy Office. Now known as the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith, it must allow anyone charged...
...took 30 years for the decrees of Trent to take hold, and even in this century of rapid communication, it may take nearly as long before the promise of Vatican II is realized. For one thing, many members of the still-powerful Roman Curia, and conservative prelates in such countries as Ireland, Spain and Italy, are likely to give only lip service to conciliar decrees. In some dioceses, says Jesuit Scholar John Mc-Kenzie, "there will be little reform until the death of the present incumbent." Many bishops, moreover, will be returning home to face the hostility or incomprehension...
Concession to Atheism. The first item for debate on the fourth session's agenda, the declaration had been sharply attacked by prelates from Spain, Italy and the Roman Curia, who charged that it was a concession to atheism and a denial of the Catholic Church's claim to speak God's truth exclusively. Shortly before the vote, more than 100 conservative bishops petitioned the Pope to take the declaration away from the Secretariat for Promoting Christian Unity and give it to a new commission of theologians for rewriting. A majority of the council presidents, moderators and members...
That gambit dismayed the progressives. Dutch Bishop Jan Willebrands, the secretariat's second-in-command, got an audience with the Pope, warned him of the adverse worldwide reaction if the declaration were sidetracked. Paul agreed. He summoned Gregory Peter Agagianian, a Curia cardinal and one of the moderators, and suggested that the bishops should be allowed to decide whether they wanted the text. Agagianian informed the council leaders of Paul's views, and they reversed their stand...