Word: curiae
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Sitting through one especially ineffectual debate, for instance, Panin reflects that "all the great tragedies of our time have been resolved without recourse to the U.N." The book's digs at the Vatican are gentler but nonetheless pointed; in one instance a cardinal complains that priests in the Roman Curia too often forget that "their mission before everything else is to make themselves useful to people...
...Sheed dossiers combine straight biographical facts with opinionated, often blunt assessments. And some spice. Pericle Felici, 66, the "ruthless" front-running candidate on the right, is said to use a telephoto lens to monitor Pope Paul's movements about his palace. Another Curia Cardinal, Giuseppe Maria Sensi, is said to be "a lover of fast cars" who currently zips about in a red BMW 3000. In Guatemala, Mario Casariego has been so closely identified with the regime that his automobile is always accompanied by "a radio patrol and two armed motorcycle guards...
More troublesome is the fictive Curia...
Under Pope Paul, however, Vatican policy has not been to force innovators into line, in the belief that false ideas are only dignified by the publicity and will die out eventually. Besides, adds a top-ranking prelate in the Curia, "I don't think the Catholic Church could stamp out these errors anyway." In 1972 the Vatican's Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith issued its most recent declaration on Christology. It defined as an error the theory that God was only "present in the highest degree in the human person Jesus," including the version in which...
...member of the college. If the next Pope is chosen from outside Italy, at least a possibility now that 27 of 117 voting cardinals are non-Italian, Holland's shrewd primate, Jan Cardinal Willebrands, appears to have a clear edge. With two decades of experience in the Vatican Curia, he knows the Italians well...