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...Casaroli, 64, in line for a red hat by naming him acting Secretary of State. The job, and the hat, will be permanent as soon as the Pope holds his first consistory to create new Cardinals. Since the Secretariat of State functions as a superexecutive within the Vatican Curia, it is the most important appointment John Paul II will make. Casaroli becomes the highest-ranking churchman after the Pope himself...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Right-Hand Man | 5/14/1979 | See Source »

While the Harvard community calls for divestiture, the Corporation encourages investiture. If the corporate curia surrounding Pope Derek arrogantly ignores the student demand to stop peddling immortality for money, it only invites students to nail their theses on Johnston Gate instead of meekly relegating their efforts to the pits of Pusey...

Author: By Michael A. Calabrese, | Title: Indulgences and the Papal Bull | 2/26/1979 | See Source »

...condoned his destitute countrymen's scavenging for food and coal (such justifiable theft became affectionately known as "fringsen"). Appointed a Cardinal in 1946, he strove for a politically active church and during the Second Vatican Council (1962-65), successfully challenged the authority of the conservative Roman Curia. In 1969, nearly blind and in poor health, Frings retired from the archbishopric...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones, Jan. 1, 1979 | 1/1/1979 | See Source »

Behind the public image, another side of the Pope was emerging: that of a strong-minded decision maker. Instead of rubber-stamping the reappointments of senior Curia officials, John Paul announced that he needed time to ponder them. That stirred flutters of prelatic concern?was a reshuffle in store? He did fill the top Curia post of Secretary of State by reap-pointing Jean Cardinal Villot, 73, but he made a point of saying the assignment was 'Tor the initial period of our pontificate." Nonetheless, by naming a foreigner to the post, he passed up an opportunity to ease...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: John Paul II Charms the Crowds | 11/6/1978 | See Source »

...ultraconservative Giuseppe Siri, 72. After Sunday's first ballot had been completed, Siri quickly showed his strength among Curialists and other conservatives, gaining 46 of the necessary 75 votes on the second ballot. Benelli was second. Blocs of votes went to other Italians?Milan's Giovanni Colombo, the Curia's Sergio Pignedoli, Naples' Corrado Ursi?and scattered votes to other Italians and a few non-Italians...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Foreign Pope | 10/30/1978 | See Source »

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