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...DECENTRALIZATION. More than half of the bishops outside of Italy who responded to the request for agenda items asked that the Curia and the Vatican bureaucracy be made more representative of the church at large, rather than remain a private fief for Italians. The council may also provide more freedom for individual bishops, or national councils of bishops, to handle matters that until now have to be bucked on to Rome. Some Catholic radicals have suggested that the church impose a retirement age for all prelates except the Pope, abolish the medieval vestments, titles and privileges (such as rings that...
...will be the church's "liberals"-bishops who believe that the church should discard nonessentials that harm its mission, seek to make it, without sacrificing doctrine, more accessible as a home for modern man. Apart from unity-minded Cardinal Bea, the liberals have few friends in the Vatican Curia, but they do include such articulate prelates as Tanganyika's Laurean Cardinal Rugambwa, Utrecht's Bernard Jan Cardinal Alfrink, Montreal's Cardinal Léger, Munich's Julius Cardinal Döpfner, a clear majority of the bishops in France, The Netherlands, Germany, Austria, Africa...
...prepared for the spiritual tasks of combatting Communism and materialism, and exploring the hope of union with other Christian bodies. Advocates of Catholic reform, the church's "liberals." have been worried by rumors that the council might be stalled by such standpat conservatives as the cardinals of the Curia and the bishops of Italy and Spain. "The Holy Ghost," warned one Irish cleric in Rome, "has his back up against the wall...
Balancing Claims. Pope John's appointments neatly balanced the claims of liberals and conservatives, Vatican professionals and diocesan prelates from the international church. Each of the ten commissions that will prepare the formal decrees has a Curia prelate at its head-but two-thirds of the 24 members of the commission will be chosen by the bishops. On the presidential council of ten cardinals, who will take turns as chairmen of the sessions, the Pope named only one outright resister to change-Ernesto Cardinal Ruffini of Palermo. He filled the council with such middle-of-the-road prelates...
...Congratulations for your splendid, well-measured story on the cardinals of the Roman Catholic Church [March 30]. I have never read such a panoramic view of the Curia...