From panis@pacbell.net Sat Nov 10 10:12:27 2001 Received: from mailscan4.cac.washington.edu (mailscan4.cac.washington.edu [140.142.33.15]) by lists.u.washington.edu (8.11.6+UW01.08/8.11.6+UW01.10) with SMTP id fAAICQn63512 for ; Sat, 10 Nov 2001 10:12:26 -0800 Received: FROM mxu3.u.washington.edu BY mailscan4.cac.washington.edu ; Sat Nov 10 10:12:23 2001 -0800 Received: from snfc21.pbi.net (mta6.snfc21.pbi.net [206.13.28.240]) by mxu3.u.washington.edu (8.11.6+UW01.08/8.11.6+UW01.10) with ESMTP id fAAICI232090 for ; Sat, 10 Nov 2001 10:12:23 -0800 Received: from [192.168.0.4] ([63.198.176.35]) by mta6.snfc21.pbi.net (iPlanet Messaging Server 5.1 (built May 7 2001)) with ESMTP id <0GML004E0JWHQH@mta6.snfc21.pbi.net> for classics@u.washington.edu; Sat, 10 Nov 2001 10:12:18 -0800 (PST) Date: Sat, 10 Nov 2001 10:12:17 -0800 From: John McChesney-Young Subject: Re: serpere in Bellarmine In-reply-to: <001701c16a05$40893880$c9b01fc4@al40> X-Sender: panis@postoffice.pacbell.net To: classics@u.washington.edu Message-id: MIME-version: 1.0 Content-type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-transfer-encoding: 7BIT I hesitate to contradict Terrence Lockyer, from whom I have learned so much, but his statement: >Ratzinger is presently head of the Congregatio de propaganda fide is incorrect. As stated at the Vatican web page devoted to a profile of the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith: >The congregation is now headed by Prefect Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger. It >has a secretary, Archbishop Tarcisio Bertone, S.D.B., >named June 13, an under-secretary, Msgr. Jozef Zlatnansky, and a staff of >32, according to the 1995 "Annuario Pontificio" or >"Pontifical Yearbook." It also has 23 members - cardinals, archbishops and >bishops - and 27 consultors. Given the nature of its >task, congregation work is divided into four distinct sections: the >doctrinal office, the disciplinary office, the matrimonial office >and that for priests. The CDF's most visible work is in the first section listed, the preservation of doctrinal integrity in the Roman Catholic Church (or, as those unhappy with the doctrinal stance of Cardinal Ratzinger would have it, the squelching of innovative theologians). The head of the former Congregation for the Propagation of the Faith (now officially in English, "Congregation for the Evangelization of Peoples"; it was renamed in the curial restructuring madated by the 1967 apostolic consititution _Regimini Ecclesiae Universae_ but in a quick on-line check I didn't turn up the Latin name) is Cardinal Crescenzio Sepe: That congregation's function is to oversee evangelization, in the broad sense of the term, and the Vatican's publishing program falls under their jurisdiction. Further details on the curial structure can be found at pages linked here at the Vatican web site: John ******* John McChesney-Young ** panis@pacbell.net ** Berkeley, California, USA .