Word: prefect
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Vatican's protagonist in the argument is the prefect of the Congregation for the Clergy, American John Cardinal Wright. Essentially, Wright has argued, children should not be treated like "little tots" but like "little men," whose consciences need careful formation at an early age. The proper age, said Wright, was about seven. Confession then, Wright argued, might "save the person at his roots" by correcting bad habits that "could jeopardize forever [his] recuperating capacity...
...strike began three weeks ago when Marseille's new prefect of police, Rene Heckenroth, responded to political pressure to clean up the city by suddenly closing down the 30-odd hotels where the prostitutes took their clients. With that, the girls walked off the job-but not before consulting Lawyer Emile Pollak, who told them to extend their walkout for 30 days. "On the 31st day," he warned, "you'll see what state Marseille wilt...
...seminarians at Maryland's Woodstock College seldom left the leafy campus overlooking the Patapsco River Valley. They rose at 5:30 a.m. to the clang of a seminary bell, attended compulsory early Mass, skittered around the campus in long black cassocks. They ate their meals silently while a prefect read from learned books. But neither its cloistered atmosphere nor its age (founded in 1869, it was the oldest Jesuit theologate in the U.S.) prevented Woodstock from being the nation's most dynamic institution of Roman Catholic theology...
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...
...already congested part of Paris 1,000 apartments and offices for 7,000 workers in a 62-story tower. The damage that the Montparnasse tower has done to Paris' proud profile has caused the largest outcry of all the rebuilding in the city-and helped move Paris Prefect Jean Verdier last week to announce new rules to reduce the permissible height of new buildings in the heart of Paris to 80 feet...