Word: secretariat
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...impoverished Lithuanian parents who immigrated to Cicero, Ill., Archbishop Marcinkus had enjoyed a steady rise in the Vatican hierarchy before the scandal broke. After taking a degree in canon law at Rome's Pontifical Gregorian University, Marcinkus joined the Vatican's State Secretariat in 1952 and soon caught the eye of Archbishop Giovanni Battista Montini, who was to become Pope Paul VI in 1963. The new Pontiff made the tall (6 ft. 3 in.), burly American cleric part of an intimate circle of papal advisers. In 1964 the Pontiff selected Marcinkus, a born organizer, to be his advanceman...
...Holy See jealously guards its status as a sovereign state. When Italian officials sent letters to the three bankers, informing them of the investigation, the Holy See's Secretariat of State refused to take delivery of the documents. Instead, it insisted that the letters be passed through formal diplomatic channels via the Italian embassy to the Holy See. Italian officials are expected to resend the notifications this week, perhaps through the foreign ministry...
Looking pale but fit, Brezhnev nominated Yuri Andropov, 67, the tall and somewhat stooped leader of the Committee for State Security (KGB), for election to the ten-man Secretariat of the Central Committee, a powerful body that runs the day-to-day affairs of the party. The Central Committee promptly elected him. Two days later, the government announced that Andropov had been relieved of his position in the KGB "because of his assignment to other duties." The promotion made Andropov one of only four contenders who hold the combination of posts thought necessary for a potential party chief: membership...
...will be difficult for a man who has been in the sticks as long as Fedorchuk to take control of the KGB. Meanwhile, Fedorchuk will be kept under close supervision by the Central Committee Secretariat, perhaps by Andropov himself...
...undermining the concept of the One True Church. But in 1958 Angelo Giuseppe Cardinal Roncalli, the Patriarch of Venice, was elected Pope John XXIII after the death of the doctrinally stern Pius XII, and a new mood about Christian unity took hold. Two years later, John established the Vatican Secretariat for Promoting Christian Unity to further ecumenism among all Christian groups. And the Second Vatican Council, called into session by Pope John XXIII in 1962, began to issue decrees that moved the Catholic Church closer to an ecumenical spirit. "There was a man sent from God," said Ecumenical Patriarch Athenagoras...