Word: curiae
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...highest councils of the church. Before John Paul's dramatic Mass for peace at the Vatican the weekend before last, with both British and Argentine Cardinals concelebrating, the lines were well formed. Arrayed in favor from the start were the British bishops. Opposed were key members of the Curia-and, most notably, Archbishop Ubaldo Calabresi, the papal nuncio in Argentina. Backing Calabresi were the Pope's top aide, Secretary of State Agostino Cardinal Casaroli; Archbishop Achille Silvestrini, his "foreign minister," who had once favored the trip but turned against the idea when the battles began; and Sebastiano Cardinal...
Many emotional controversies were not addressed, among them the Catholic ban on birth control; acceptance by some Anglican churches of abortion, divorce and women priests; the role of the laity in church government; the powers of the Vatican Curia; the question of who will choose bishops; and the rigorously Bible-based views of Anglican Evangelicals...
...months John Paul has had to delegate most of the responsibility for the day-to-day operation of the church to Agostino Cardinal Casaroli, Vatican Secretary of State. Casaroli, 66, presides over weekly sessions of the Council of the Curia, the Vatican's chief administrative body, and keeps a watchful eye over the Holy See's worldwide communication network, as well as its complex local government. For weeks the Italian press has been referring to him as "il Vice Papa." Even so, many matters of doctrine and morals, which only the Pope can deal with, have been piling...
Even before the assassination attempt, many hard-liners in the Curia, who are unhappy with the freewheeling style of this Pope, hoped he would consider doing just that. But there are indications that John Paul has other things in mind. After lunching with the Pope several days before his operation, Poland's new Primate Jozef Glemp declared that John Paul will "almost certainly" be traveling next year. As it happens, next year Poland will be marking the 600th anniversary of the arrival of the nation's most venerated religious symbol, the Black Madonna of Czestochowa, clearly a celebration...
...caretaker, Casaroli has limited but specific authority. In addition to running his own 300-man staff, which handles routine diplomatic business, he stands in for the Pope at weekly meetings of the Curia's Council of Cardinals, the Vatican's administrative leadership. He is also obliged to carry out all initiatives decided on and signed by the Pope. Among them: the long-planned creation of a pontifical council on the state of the family, and the publishing of the Pontiffs new decrees on the reform of canon law. But Cardinal Casaroli has no authority over policy on matters...