Word: curiae
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...when the decree takes effect, the term of curial office will in most cases be limited to five years instead of the traditional lifetime appointments. And to prevent the kind of friction between Pontiff and Curia that plagued Pope John, henceforth all cardinals heading curial offices and congregations (administrative divisions) must resign when a Pope dies, allowing the incoming Pontiff to choose a staff to his liking. Ending the present system, which allows some clerics to make the Curia their entire career, the Pope insists that all future congregation members must have some pastoral experience and should be drawn from...
...Ones. The turnover in Curia membership could start quite soon. When the provision of a five-year term of office takes effect next January, the present curial officials must be newly approved by the Pope. This would give him a chance to ease some of the old guard out. In fact, there is already heavy pressure on at least four, including Alfredo Cardinal Ottaviani, 76, and Giuseppe Cardinal Pizzardo, 90, to step clown. Pizzardo has served since...
...cardinal to fill the upgraded post of Secretary of State-or Papal Secretary, as it will now be called. The present Secretary of State, Cardinal Cicognani, 84, is soon expected to resign. His successor will be a kind of Vatican Prime Minister, with new responsibility to coordinate Curia affairs and to summon cardinals to Cabinet-style meetings. The Pope also set up an office to supervise the four departments that handle the Vatican's vast financial interests...
...early to say what the changes would bring. As he has frequently done in the past, the Pope may still decide to hedge the liberalism of the Curia reform with several conservative appointments. But as Pope John himself may have realized during his constant battle with the Curia, the new spirit that he ushered into the church can never really take hold without exactly the kind of administrative revolution that Pope Paul has now decreed...
...order. Secular leaders met under his guidance. Protestants welcomed him to their councils; the Episcopal Committee on Theological Freedom and Social Responsibilities listed him as one of its advisers. Internation al Catholicism recognized his intellectual leadership at the Second Vatican Council, despite efforts of the ultra-conservative Vatican Curia to suppress his liberal views on religious freedom...