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New primate quiet, strong VATIC~ CITY (NC) Pope John Paul II has named Bishop Jozef Glemp, a former aide to the :late Cardinal Stefan Wyszynski, to succeed the cardinal as arch~ bishop of Warsaw and Gniezno and primate of Poland. When the appointment was made July 7, Archbishop-desig, nate Glemp, 52, headed the Diocese of Olsztyn, which has about 1.3 million Catholics. He was .appointed to the Polish episcopacy two years ago and is vir.tually unknown outside his own country. He was considered a dark hQrse among possibilities to succeed Cardinal Wyszynski, said Father Robert S. Kaszynski, pas. tor of St. Stanislaus Church, Fall "River. He said he knew the new primate "very slightly, only through his connection with the late cardinal." Father Kaszynski and his as"sociate, Father Antoni Bury, S.
Chr., who has just returned from a visit to his native Poland, agreed that Archbishop-designate Glemp, althought a quiet man, is strong and can be expected to be an administrator in the mold of Cardinal Wyszynski. It is not known whether his name was on a list of three recommended to the pope by the Polish bishops' conference as possible successors to the cardinal, who died May 28 at age 79. Father Kaszynski said the new primate was in the United States in May to attend the installation of Polish-American Archbishop Edmund Szoka as successor to Cardinal JQhn Dearden in the heavily Polish Detroit archdiocese. As head of Poland's primatial See, Gniezno, and the Warsaw Archdiocese, he will have direct pastoral responsibility for more than 4 million Catholics in the
two diQceses and indirect responsibility for all of Poland's estimated 32 million Catholics. He is also expected to be elected: ,to the presidency of the Polish Bishops' Conference. A native of Inowroclaw, ArchbiShop-designate Glemp studied philosophy and theology at the Gniezno archdiocesan major seminary and was ordained to the priesthood on May 25, 1956. After Qrdination, he studied canon law at the Pontifical Gregorian University in Rome. " Archbishop-designate Glemp held various posts in the Gniezno archdiocesan offices and was a consultant to Cardinal Wysznski until his aPP<>intment as bishop of Warmia by Pope John Paul . on ~arch 6, 1979. He was consecrated a bishop on April 21, 1979. In addition to Polish, the new primate speaks Italia'n, French, English and German.
How the Vatican wor}{.s BISHOP-ELECT DELANEY
-Fall River native Fort Worth bishop Pope John Paul II has named Father Joseph P. Delaney, 46, a native of Sacred Heart parish, Fall River, the second bishop of the clIiocese of Fort Worth, Texas. Archbishop Pio Laghi, apostolic delegate in the United States, announced the appointment Tuesday in Washington. The bishop-elect bas spent more than half his priestly career in Texas, goin~: to the diocese of Brownsville in 1967, at tbe request of Cardinal Humberto Medeiros, then the Brownsville ordinary. He was incardinated into the Brownsville diocese in 1971. Ordained in Rome~ Dec. 18, 1960, for /the Fall River diocese, he was associate pastor at Sacred Heart Church, Taunton, a religion tleacher at· the .former Coyle High School, also in Taunton, and diocesan assistant superintendent of schools before transferring to Brownsville. Commenting on the appointment, Bishop Daniel A. Cronin said "I am confident that Father Delaney will bring to the diocese of Fort Worth his well-known gifts of intellect and spirit. The announcement brings joy to the diocese of Fort Worth, which the new bishop is caUed to Turn to Page Two
This is the first in a series of articles by the NC News Rome bureau on how the Roman Curia, the church's central administration, is run.) VATICAN CITY '(NC) Everyone knows that the pope heads the Roman Catholic Church. But when he makes a ,decision affecting the lives of more than 730 million CathQlics ;around the world, who advises lhim? ; What are the policy-making lstructures in the church? How is ,'jt governed? How are laws made and administered? Who judges :Conflicts? I Any discussion of church gov\ernment must begin with the lP<>pe. j The First Vatican Council in '11870 formally defined the extent of papal jurisdiction. It said !the pope has the full, ordinary land immediate power of a bishop lover the whole church and is !supreme judge of the faithful." 1 In other words, there is nQ !separation of legislative, judicial land executive powers in the !church such as there is in the IU.S. government. All these 4powers meet in the pope. I The Second Vatican Council l(1962-65) emphasized the pashoral nature of the pope's power. ilt stressed the "supreme and full ' 1P0wer" of the College of Bishops ;:in union with the pope but stalted clearly that this power only lexists with the pope at their . (head.
This power of the bishops in dominate in the most important union with the pope is seen of these departments, those most clearly in ecumenical coun- called congregations. cils. The 21 ecumenical '(allA final extra-curial body church) councils in history have which plays an important role played a majQr rolE: in settling in church policy is the world disputed questions and in estab- Synod of Bishops. lishing long-range church poliFounded in 1965 at the mancies and discipline. date of Vatican II, it convenes The last such counCil, Vati- every three years. It is a largely can II, had a major impact on elected body representing the the structures of the Roman world's bishops, called to adCuria - the church's central . Vise the pope on major church administration - and the way issues. they operate, as well as on It cannot pass laws or decree church life in general. policies or programs, but its disOther broad structures for de- cussions and conclusions have cision-making in the church are served as the basis for several the CQllege of Cardinals and the major papal documents on World Synod of Bishops. church issues. The most important functions Pope, councils, the College of of the College of Cardinals are Cardinals and the Synod of to govern the church between Bishops are not part of the Curia papacies and to elect a new itself but form a framework of pope. In recent centuries these policy and decisions within were the Qnly reasons the col- which the Roman Curia works. lege was convened. The chief Curia office is the But in 1979 Pope John Paul Secretariat of State, charged II convoked the cardinals to ad- with "closely assisting the Suvise him on Vatican finances, preme P.ontiff both in the care the organization and operation of the universal church and in of the Roman Curia and the relations with the dicasteries of work Qf pontifical academies, the Roman Curia." particularly the academy of sciIn other words, the secretary ences. of state is the pope's right-hand While the College of Cardin- man. He and his secretariat are als as such does not handle daily the pope's chief liaison with the policy and ad"ministration decis- rest of the Curia and with the ions, cardinals play a major part world's bishops. The secretariat is also in in the Roman Curia. All the dicasteries, major departments of charge of the Holy See's reprethe Curia, are ordinarily headed sentatives to other nations, to by cardinals, and cardinals preTurn to Page Six