Word: curiae
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Whatever the merits of the Dutch arguments, one progressive in the Curia insists that liberals must preserve a recognizable core of faith or lose their credence within the church altogether. Says he: "When the liberals become so vague, so completely speculative, doubting and unsure of their own beliefs, they leave their own followers with a loss of identity, direction and dedication. If all we can offer is a vague kind of 'social gospel,' the same thing can be found in secular political movements and the church loses any reason for existence. Unless the liberal theologians offer something solid...
...Shortly thereafter, he titillated papal observers with an odd pilgrimage to the castle associated with Pope Celestine V, who quit the papacy in 1294 after only five months in office. Within the past month, two Rome weeklies have primed the speculation. L'Espresso ran a poll of Curia opinions on whether Paul would step down (65% said no), and Il Mondo suggested waggishly that an unnamed cardinal was making book on the question. There are good reasons for Paul's retirement to be doubtful. For one thing, it would tend to reduce the office of Christ...
...says that he is speaking out not only to keep ecumenism alive but because, since Vatican Council II, Rome has severely damaged "the unity and credibility of the Catholic Church." The system of Pope plus Curia, he charges "is still characterized by a spiritual absolutism, formalistic and frequently inhuman juridicism, and a traditionalism spelling death to genuine renewal that are really shocking to modern man." The charges seem a logical enough extension of Kűng's increasingly liberal theology. He has already argued for a lay and clerical role in the selection of bishops and has also suggested...
...village of Clémery. One building is the 200-ft. "Basilica of Glory," austere on the outside but stuffed with plaster piety inside: battalions of pink and blue angels, scores of polychromed saints, gauze curtains and blue and beige carpets. The make-believe Pope has only a modest Curia -ten "cardinals" and "bishops" and a covey of giggling "nuns": most of the followers are or have been Roman Catholic priests and nuns...
Labor's white-haired leadership just does not understand what the younger members are saying. The average age of the A.F.L.-C.l.O. executive council is 63, which makes the council one of the oldest governing bodies in the world, in roughly the same league as the Vatican Curia and the Chinese Politburo. Seemingly innocent of new ideas, labor's gerontocracy has lost the loyalty of the young and the idealistic, which it had held in the time when labor led the battle for reform. Today, instead of seeking to change and improve the system, the union leadership has become...