Word: curial
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Paul's death came in the middle of the ferragosto, Italy's traditional August vacation break, and Curial Cardinals were scattered everywhere. Cables went out to them and to all Cardinals around the globe, summoning them to Rome. Sebastiano Baggio, head of the Vatican Congregation of Bishops, had to fly in from Colombia, where he was helping prepare an October meeting of Latin American bishops. On Tuesday, in the presence of those red hats who had arrived in the Eternal City, Villot raised a hammer and smashed the Fisherman's seal, inscribed with Paul's name, that had been removed...
...long-running political crisis. Communists control Rome and most of Italy's other major cities and are inching ever closer toward participation in the national government. For that reason, many analysts assume that a non-Italian is simply inconceivable. The crisis, however, cuts both ways. One American with Curial experience says that Italian bishops tell him that a non-Italian Pope is needed to shield the office from entanglement in no-win national disputes. Besides, remarks Jesuit James C. Carter (no kin), president of Loyola University of New Orleans, "the church is going to project a parochial image as long...
...greater than in any previous conclave, nearly twice the number who voted in 1963 in Pope Paul's election. With that increase has come an explosion of candidates. Observes Paulist Father Thomas Stransky, a former member of the Vatican's Secretariat for Promoting Christian Unity and longtime Curial insider: "There is such a wide spread that it is impossible to say whose name will finally come...
...Arrupe was in trouble within the Society of Jesus, reports TIME'S Erik Amfitheatrof, the Curia maneuvers only served to help him score a major victory. The Congregation not only resented the interference with internal Jesuit issues, but feared a growth in curial influence over the order if Arrupe were weakened. It therefore rallied round the Superior General, who is now strongly entrenched in his post. Arrupe showed great confidence and diplomacy last month in a speech in which he admitted the Pope's anguish over the Jesuits. He becomingly confessed that his failings as an administrator were...
Last week the Vatican sought again to correct that problem by clamping a firm ceiling on fees for Rota trials-and promptly found itself under fire from both the press and the Rota lawyers. In a circular letter to bishops, Dino Cardinal Staffa, the curial prefect whose jurisdiction includes the Rota, explained that lawyers' fees for annulment cases would henceforth be permitted to range only from $255 to $510. Trial costs would range from $425 to $595. To ensure compliance with the ceilings, all costs would be paid to the court, which would then pay the lawyers...