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...papal plea looked toward the forthcoming meeting of the Roman Catholic Church's ecumenical council, for which some 2,300 clerics and theologians will flock to Rome, many for their first view of the city. Urged Pope John, in a 4,500-word letter to Romans: Pray for "mortification of lust, aversion to mundane pomp and detachment from excessive avidity of riches . . . We like to call Rome a Holy City. God forbid it become a city of perversion...
...doors to the hall were opened, and papal messengers delivered biglietti, the formal written notices of elevation to the purple, to the eight new cardinals who were in Rome for the ceremony.* As usual with precedent-cracking Pope John, a certain surprise went with the biglietti. The majority of cardinals are already bishops or archbishops before they receive their red hats; at the consistory the Pope announced that he would raise all twelve of the present cardinals who were not bishops (including two of the new ones) to bishoprics at a special ceremony next month...
...Whim of the Pope. A cardinal, according to an old Roman riddle, is a whim of the Pope; he must vow absolute obedience to the will of the man who holds the See of St. Peter, must get explicit papal permission to leave Rome or its suburbs. But a cardinal is also, next to the Pope, the most privileged and the most powerful cleric in the Roman Catholic Church. As one of the most spectacular dressers of Christendom, he has to lay out at least $3,000 for his cassocks and skullcaps of scarlet and purple* (which are worn during...
...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...
...cardinals is Holy Officer Alfredo Ottaviani. Almost totally blind, Ottaviani is not likely to succeed Pope John, partly because his political views are too conservative by modern Vatican standards, partly because too many cardinals fear the authoritarian rule he might impose. Ottaviani might well try to throw the next papal election to another conservative, such as Giuseppe Cardinal Siri, 55, Archbishop of Genoa. A brilliant administrator, Siri is notorious for his opposition to ecclesiastical innovation: although most of the dockworkers in his diocese must work mornings, he refuses to allow pastors to say Mass in the afternoon...