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...capacity since Spain's Cardinal Merry del Val held the office under Pius X from 1903 to 1914. While there was some surprise that this sensitive job would go to a non-Italian, the appointment was in keeping with Paul's long-declared intention of internationalizing the Curia. Two years ago, 20 of the 24 highest posts in the Vatican bureaucracy were held by Italian prelates; now, only eight top posts are held by Italians. "This is what we have been demanding," said John Cardinal Wright of Pittsburgh, one of four Americans who received their red birettas last...
Since being called back to Rome in 1967 to join the Curia, Villot has been even more actively involved in grappling with religious, racial and other forms of ferment in the priesthood throughout the world. Easily approachable, he generally wears a plain black cassock to work, frequently answers his own telephone, and sometimes, in order to keep an appointment, will hop a bus rather than use a Vatican limousine...
...years ago, the Jesuits have been the Pope's Own. But even their privileged position has not kept them immune from the present dissension and turmoil in the Roman Catholic Church. Last week Father Marius Schoenenberger, 49, one of eleven regional assistants who are part of the "Jesuit curia" under Father-General Pedro Arrupe, announced that he was asking to leave the order. He is the highest-ranking Jesuit ever to quit the society...
...National Conference of Catholic Bishops in the U.S. Pittsburgh's Bishop John J. Wright, one of the most articulate theologians in the U.S. hierarchy, played a significant role in shaping several documents of Vatican II. He will return to Rome to an as yet unannounced post in the Curia...
...another Curia official, Bishop Jan Willebrands, the brilliant Dutch prelate who long served the late Augustin Cardinal Bea in the Secretariat for Promoting Christian Unity, is among the new cardinals and will likely succeed Bea as head of the Secretariat in name as well as in fact. The selection of men like Willebrands may help mollify some Catholic liberals who had hoped to see a synod of bishops eventually take over the functions of the College of Cardinals-a development now hardly likely with the promotion of so many princes...