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...Well Run as G.M. Under Pope John, 53 of the church's princes served abroad as papal ambassadors or bishops of dioceses stretching from Tokyo to Munich. The other 34 cardinals, including eleven non-Italians, work in Rome as the papal cabinet, running the Curia. It is one of the oddest bureaucracies in the world, yet one of the most efficient. In 1960 the American Institute of Management rated the Roman Catholic Church, found it about as well run as General Motors...
...SECRETARIAT FOR CHRISTIAN UNITY. One of the newest of Vatican bureaus, this secretariat is not considered part of the Curia, nonetheless rates as one of the most influential (and most public) branches of the church's government. It serves as the liaison office between Rome and non-Catholic churchmen, will handle the invitations to Protestant and Orthodox leaders who are expected to attend the Second Vatican Council in October as observers. The presiding cleric: Augustin Cardinal Bea, 81, a German Jesuit who was confessor to Pope Pius...
...older cardinals (average age, 70) was asked by a newsman how the Princes of the Church spent their time. "They work all day long," he answered, "but don't write that. Nobody would believe it."Actually, despite Roman cynicism which insists that dilata (delayed) is the Curia's favorite word, cardinals who are well enough to work put in fairly busy days. One of the busiest of such active cardinals is the Consistorial Congregation's Confalonieri, who was made a cardinal (along with 22 others) at Pope John's first consistory in 1958, given his present...
Died. Aloisius Joseph Cardinal Muench, 72, only U.S. prelate ever to serve on the Roman Curia, a witty Midwesterner who championed social and labor legislation, served for 13 years as papal representative in West Germany; of Parkinson's disease; in Rome...
...cleric's spending his entire service in the curia, since ecclesiastical careerism is "virtually a betrayal of our common cause and God's cause...