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...completed five months ago, and its negative judgment was not unexpected. Despite strong protests to the Pope since then by leading European prelates, it was modified only slightly. During its preparation, said Vatican sources, Paul relied heavily on the advice of three exceptionally conservative prelates of the Roman Curia: Alfredo Cardinal Ottaviani, 77, the retired former chief of the Congregation for the Propagation of the Faith; Paris-born Archbishop Paul Phillipe, secretary of the congregation; and Bishop Carlo Colombo of Milan, Paul's personal theological adviser...
...heart attack; in Philadelphia. A brilliant canon lawyer, Brennan in 1940 was the first American appointed to the Sacred Rota, Roman Catholicism's court of last appeal in marriage, in 1959 became its chief judge, and last January was named the first American to head the Curia's Congregation of Sacraments, which ensures the correct administration of the seven sacraments. Died. Richard Maney, 77, dean of Broadway pressagents, who in 50 years beat the drums for some 250 plays (including My Fair Lady, Camelot); of pneumonia; in Norwalk, Conn. Gruff, unfailingly honest and highly literate, Maney assailed...
...that many leading European prelates considered Paul's message patently unacceptable. Vienna's Franziskus Cardinal Konig, who had been informed of its contents in advance, flew to Rome two weeks ago to implore the Pope not to release it. While satisfactory to conservatives of the Roman Curia, Konig argued, the pronouncement was "most unwise pastorally and apostolically," and it would "do the church much damage." Such other European liberals as Belgium's Leo Josef Cardinal Suenens and Munich's Julius Cardinal Dopfner reportedly telephoned Pope Paul with similar objections...
...enhanced by the commanding performance of Alec McCowen, is followed by a dozen others as Rolfe seizes the reins of Vatican government with reforming zeal. With curious prescience, Rolfe's vision anticipates changes that took place in the Catholic Church half a century later. Pope Hadrian shakes the Curia to its foundation by renouncing all claim to temporal sovereignty, and defies tradition by walking through the streets to his coronation. He sells the Vatican treasures and gives the proceeds to the poor. Homelier touches include Hadrian giving an audience to a charwoman who had once befriended the "spoiled priest...
Three months after being elected Pope, Paul VI announced that he intended to modernize his Curia, the Vatican's 1,000-man bureaucracy, by bringing in younger clerics, including many more non-Italians. Last week the Pope took a major step toward that goal when he accepted the resignations of two venerable members of Rome's Old Guard...