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Meeting with Two Russians. Slipyi's release is the diplomatic handiwork of two close Curia friends of Pope John-Augustin Cardinal Bea, chief of the Secretariat for Promoting Christian Unity, and Gustavo Cardinal Testa, secretary of the Sacred Congregation for the Oriental Church, which supervises Byzantine-rite Catholics. Late last November, Bea arranged a quiet meeting between Testa and the two Russian observers at the Vatican Council. Testa smoothly pointed out that the Pope had officially disavowed a protest prepared by a group of Ukrainian bishops at the council objecting to the presence of the Russians, tactfully brought...
While I am pleased to see that you have chosen Pope John XXIII Man of the Year, as an official of the Roman Curia I wish to point out that the statement that "the Curia clearly did not want it [the Vatican Council]" is not correct. In the first place, it cannot be said that the Roman Curia is for or against anything, because it does not think or act as a body: it is made up of twelve congregations or offices, six other offices and three tribunals, each of which is separate from the others. Furthermore, by canonical definition...
...only way your reporter could have known how the Curia stood on the council would have been to poll each member, and I am sure he did not do that. I, for one, know that after the Pope announced the council, the Curia cooperated magnificently in doing spadework for its preparation...
...Msgr. Rizzi's quarrel is not with TIME but with the dozens of priests, bishops, archbishops and cardinals who recognized the Curia's dilatory tactics...
Pope John let the Curia have its way. To Boston's Richard Cardinal Cushing, he explained: "Sono net sacco qui"?"I'm in a bag here." But when the council fathers arrived in Rome, they began getting discreet telephone calls from Monsignor Loris Capovilla, the Pope's private secretary, subtly disassociating the Pope from the Curia. The progressives among the bishops correctly deduced that John wanted a wholesale reform, but they did not at first realize their own strength. Gradually, encouraged by the knowledge that the world was watching, they became emboldened. "We heard men dare to say things...