Word: papally
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Born in Cicero, Ill., of Lithuanian heritage, Marcinkus has been a member of Pope John Paul II's entourage, and for 17 years served as a papal advance man. In 1970 Marcinkus used his 6-ft. 4-in. frame to thwart a knife attack on Pope Paul VI in Manila. The Archbishop was once thought to be on the Vatican fast track, but after the Ambrosiano affair his rapid career advancement came to a stop. He was not named a Cardinal as anticipated and did not rise to become President of Vatican City, another post that he was expected...
Though the overall budget of the Holy See is a well-kept secret, church officials estimate that it ran a deficit of $56 million last year. The freeze means that the Cardinals who run Vatican ministries will go without a pay raise and that papal ambassadors around the world will have to watch their expense accounts. The Pope will not have to curb his travel schedule, however, since his trips are mostly paid for by local churches...
Concerned, the Vatican issued a highly unusual public explanation. In a document sent to U.S. bishops two weeks before the Washington meeting, papal Pro-Nuncio Pio Laghi detailed the matters on which Hunthausen lacked the "firmness necessary to govern the archdiocese." Besides homosexuality, the list included divorce, sterilization, sacramental rules and church employment of ex-priests. Laghi also charged that Hunthausen had agreed to cede the powers to Wuerl and then reneged on the deal...
From the Vatican viewpoint, John Paul's program for the church was at stake. Noting the ways in which Hunthausen had strayed from papal policy, a Vatican official last week explained Rome's stand. "No business would stand for a daughter concern that so openly drifted from company policy," he said. "The Pope doesn't like being nasty . . . but he feels that ambiguity is slowly nibbling away at people's perception of the church and that the time has come...
Much of Augustine's energy as a bishop was spent resisting heretics and schismatics, which led him to insist on the hierarchical church as the authoritative teacher and sole channel of salvation. Though this view later buttressed papal powers, Augustine defied Pope Zosimus when the Pontiff tolerated Pelagius, whose theology was so optimistic that humanity scarcely seemed to need a Saviour...