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...French-speaking group of prelates, which included the synod's leading reformist, Leo-Jozef Cardinal Suenens of Belgium, made some of the most radical recommendations. It raised the possibility of bishops becoming involved in the election of the Pope; it also urged that the Roman Curia serve the church's bishops as well as the Pope...
Curbing the Curia. One committee of English-speaking prelates that included Detroit's John Cardinal Dearden suggested that papal nuncios be bypassed in most communications between national episcopates and the Vatican. Another English-speaking group asked that the Roman Curia stop using the expression "the Holy Father says" and giving the impression that it speaks in the name of the Pope when, in fact, it is speaking for itself. Nor, it said, should the Curia issue decrees or make major press statements without informing the concerned bishops beforehand...
Thirty-six of the prelates had been hand-picked by the Pope or were Curia members, and a majority of the others had been considered supporters of a conservative viewpoint. Yet speaker after speaker amplified Cardinal Suenens' concern. A surprisingly large number of those who spoke urged a quick and broad implementation of collegiality, or shared authority-a principle that had been enunciated by Vatican II, but never clearly spelled out. Yet Pope Paul ignored it altogether last year when he failed to consult his bishops throughout the world before issuing his controversial Humanae Vitae encyclical opposing artificial birth...
...Curia was quick to strike back. Eugene Cardinal Tisserant, 85, dean of the college of cardinals, wrote a letter to Suenens reportedly charging that his public statements were defamatory and slanderous. Tisserant demanded a retraction. Suenens answered that such an accusation was "unacceptable" and said he saw "no cause for retraction...
...spiritual Red Cross organization." But he also insists that something must be done, and soon, to stop "this hemorrhage of priests. The part-time priest, married or not, could be a first step. The world is evolving and the church must evolve with it." Such suggestions infuriate the Curia, where Suenens is considered a Judas. Once many of his peers considered him a candidate for the throne of Peter. Now it is generally agreed that he has no chance of ever becoming Pope...