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...harshest indictment yet of the Rome government's inability to halt the epidemic of brutal criminal violence that has gripped Italy in recent years. The Archbishop of Palermo was presiding over a highly emotional memorial service for Carabinieri General Carlo Alberto Dalla Chiesa, the appointed prefect of Palermo, who had arrived in May to spearhead the government's efforts to clean up the Sicilian Mafia. The day before, Dalla Chiesa, 62, and his bride of less than two months, Emanuela Setti Carraro, 32, were slain in downtown Palermo during an ambush by presumed Mafia hitmen...
...notably, Archbishop Ubaldo Calabresi, the papal nuncio in Argentina. Backing Calabresi were the Pope's top aide, Secretary of State Agostino Cardinal Casaroli; Archbishop Achille Silvestrini, his "foreign minister," who had once favored the trip but turned against the idea when the battles began; and Sebastiano Cardinal Baggio, prefect of the Pontifical Commission for Latin America. In a business-as-usual decision, such a power bloc would have won hands down. But this was an unusual situation, and John Paul is no rule-book Pontiff. Inside Vatican corridors, officials only half jokingly use the term the Panzer...
...selection last September of U.S. Archbishop Paul Marcinkus as chief administrator of Vatican City. Now, at the start of John Paul's fourth year, his lineup is virtually complete. The Pope has just named West Germany's Joseph Cardinal Ratzinger, 54, to be his doctrinal watchdog as Prefect of the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith (formerly the Holy Office). Ratzinger is the only internationally respected theologian in modern times to fill the post, and the Pope's second most important appointee is also perfectly attuned to John Paul's conservative views...
...Pope's desire to end the church's period of doctrinal uncertainty means that the new prefect can expect some renewed booing and a lot more conflict. One sure focus for trouble is Dominican Father Edward Schillebeeckx, a Dutch scholar who has frequently questioned Vatican views. In a new book, Ministry, published last April in English (Crossroad; $12.95), Schillebeeckx focused his critical attention on the clergy. Pointing to the church's manpower shortage, he argues that the "right" of Catholics to have priests means that some rules must be reexamined, notably those which ban women, non-celibates...
...industrialized democracies are grappling with the problem of big government, but nowhere is the concept better understood than in France. Since 1800 an elite corps of Paris-appointed prefects-referred to by Napoleon as his "little emperors"-has carried the Tricolor and the edicts of the central government into each of the country's 95 départements, or districts. Under Mitterrand's reform, municipal and departmental decisions will no longer have to be submitted to the prefect for approval. Indeed, each prefect will be replaced by a Commissioner of the Republic, who will be informed only after...