Word: papally
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...groups like priests' councils, though, are ruled out, to avoid any semblance of an electoral process.) The rules also increase the number of bishops involved in each nominating process. National episcopal conferences may henceforth approve, disapprove or add to lists of local nominations that previously went straight to papal representatives and on to Rome. In addition, any bishop anywhere may forward his own nomination directly to the Pope. The Pope reserves the option of choosing names not on the lists...
Despite the urging of reformers, the new norms preserve the intermediary role of the papal representative in each country, who investigates nominees and can also make nominations of his own. The once formidable power of that representative, however, is somewhat diluted. He must now consult with churchmen of the country, and may confer with laymen as well. Throughout all of the procedures, the rules re-emphasize the requirement of "papal secrecy," which forbids the revelation of nominees' names to anyone not involved in the process. The secrecy, says the Vatican, "is demanded by the very nature of the matter...
...Topic A around the Vatician these days is whether Pope Paul VI will resign when he reached 75 on Sept. 26. In 1966 Paul urged that bishops retire at 75. Shortly thereafter, he titillated papal observers with an odd pilgrimage to the castle associated with Pope Celestine V, who quit the papacy in 1294 after only five months in office. Within the past month, two Rome weeklies have primed the speculation. L'Espresso ran a poll of Curia opinions on whether Paul would step down (65% said no), and Il Mondo suggested waggishly that an unnamed cardinal was making...
...hierarchy have changed. Vatican attitudes toward the church's posture in Spain began to shift during the reign of Pope John XXIII, particularly in the liberal climate created by his Second Vatican Council. Then, in 1967, Pope Paul VI named Italian Archbishop Luigi Dadaglio as Apostolic Nuncio-papal ambassador-to Spain. Dadaglio arrived in Madrid with a virtual mandate to bring new blood into the Spanish hierarchy. With an assist from Franco's able ambassador to the Holy See, former Washington Envoy Antonio Garrigues y Diaz Canabate, Dadaglio engineered the appointment or advancement of more than 30 Spanish...
Director George Englund is the man who produced the papal soap opera Shoes of the Fisherman, and last year made a rock-'n 'roll western entitled Zachariah. Thus Snow Job hardly comes as a surprise...