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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...
...Vatican employs many women as clerks and typists, it recently refused to accept one-Frau Elizabeth Müller-as a member of the diplomatic mission from Bonn. Rosemary Goldie, the Catholic daughter of an Australian Jew, is the first woman ever to hold a post in the Curia. She was appointed an Undersecretary of the Council on the Laity by Pope Paul...
...centuries-old oak tree, Paul receives a worldwide news briefing that often focuses on church matters: excerpts from a German paper's comments on Vatican finances, for example, or the story in Figaro on a liberal theological congress. At 10, the Pope begins private audiences with important Curia prelates, visiting churchmen and other dignitaries. Only on Sundays, when the Pope makes a brief appearance above the palace courtyard, and on Wednesdays, the general-audience day, does the routine vary. Then cars jam the roads leading to the estate, bringing the faithful to audiences similar to those held in Rome...
...church, where Father Palencia was removed, the parishioners refused to let a curia spokesman, an assistant Bishop, come into the church. A crowd of over 500 surrounded his car and nearly destroyed it before letting the terrified Monseigneur escape. That the renegade priest was far less militant than his flock was shown clearly when he led a mass asking God to forgive the violence. The crowd was obviously not very contrite; immediately after the mass a thousand people were dancing in front of the church. (El Grafico, Aug. 6, 1970, p. 8. Interview with two of the suspended priests appears...
...Latin and Italian groups-in which most Curia members and papal appointees gathered-kept closer to the status quo. They suggested that the synod have some voice in choosing its own agenda but continue to be convened only at the Pope's pleasure. "Synods should never be a way of 'getting the Pope,' " said John Cardinal Wright, former Bishop of Pittsburgh and now head of the Vatican's Congregation of the Clergy. He warned that yearly synods could become a prime example of Parkinson's Law and a burden...