Word: curial
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...many Catholic lay people who are not in sympathy with aggiornamento and ecumenism. As for our 20th century Zwinglis, Calvins and other self-anointed "progressives," I suggest they join one of our available crackpot sects where they may indulge their divisive, anarchistic passions without fear of papal or curial restraint...
...thing, both Paul and Athenagoras must overcome the intransigence of high-placed lieutenants with an excessive regard for the rights of their churches. In Rome, many Curial conservatives, who almost openly opposed the Holy Land trip, regard unconditional surrender by Orthodoxy as the only formula for union. Athenagoras' ecumenical outlook is profoundly deplored by a majority of the twelve bishops on Greece's Holy Synod, which seems to believe that Orthodoxy can survive only apart from Rome-long-ago sponsor of the crusaders who despoiled Constantinople's Church of the Holy Wisdom...