Word: curiae
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...trip, he canceled most of his public appearances last week, spent three prayerful days in retreat. On the day of his flight to Jordan, he rose before dawn to meditate and celebrate Mass. By 7:30, he had said his farewell to the cardinals of the Roman Curia, and settled down in his black Mercedes limousine for the 16-mile trip to Leonardo da Vinci airport...
...council, the constitution allows priests and bishops to administer the sacraments, and to celebrate about half of the Roman Mass, in living languages. It also lays down norms for a simplification and reform of the ceremonies of the Mass. If the reforms are to be handled by the Curia's slow-moving Congregation of Rites, they will be relatively modest. But council progressives hope that Pope Paul will let the job be done by the bishops and theologians attached to the Liturgical Commission, who have prepared a detailed outline of how they plan to change the central...
...failed to intervene when intervention was called for, and sometimes settled for half-measures when he did act. Fortnight ago, for example, he finally responded to petitions signed by a number of bishops, asking that the council commissions be allowed to elect their own presidents to replace the roadblocking Curia officials. Instead, the Pope chose to increase the number of commission members from 25 to 30, left the presidencies in Curia hands...
Rushing Toward Schism. In public, Pope Paul made unmistakably clear his admiration and friendship for such council progressives as Belgium's Leo Josef Cardinal Suenens, and even gave open praise to Fathers Yves Congar and Karl Rahner, two council theologians whose ideas are intensely disliked by the Curia. But the Pope also seems to have found himself more a prisoner of the Curia than John ever was-and he apparently decided that he cannot afford to alienate its powerful conservatives by acting strongly against them. As an administrator, Pope Paul proved to have a common failing of the intellectual...
...then, the twelve council commissions will revise and boil down the remaining undiscussed schemata preparatory to final passage. How successfully these revisions will reflect the tone expected by the majority is problematical. Barring a last-minute change of heart by Pope Paul, the revisions will still be supervised by Curia cardinals. A case in point is the chapter favoring religious liberty, which was composed in part by U.S. Jesuit John Courtney Murray. In response to considerable pressure from Italian and Spanish bishops, Pope Paul intends to have it revised by the Theological Commission and its president, Alfredo Cardinal Ottaviani...