Cardinals inside the Roman Curia the governing body of the Vatican want to maintain their status in Rome.
Cardinal Sodano, a powerful Vatican cardinal who ran the Roman Curia under John Paul II, framed his homily by citing writings by the Apostle Paul.
The official paper blamed unidentified members of the Roman Curia, the men who run the international headquarters of the Roman Catholic Church, for the leaks.
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The group, which includes U.S. Cardinal Sean O'Malley from Boston, will examine ways to revise the Vatican constitution, Pastor Bonus, which sets the rules for running the Roman Curia, or church hierarchy.
The Vatican has witnessed a series of internal conflicts and betrayals on his watch, and his attempts to reform the Roman Curia, the central government of the Church, have not met with success.
In recent weeks, cardinals from around the world have publicly vented grievances over the opaque governance of the Roman Curia, the Vatican's scandal-plagued administrative body, pitting themselves against a coterie of colleagues who are longtime Vatican insiders.
In recent weeks, cardinals who have come from around the world to vote have publicly aired their grievances about the governance of the Roman Curia, the administrative body of the Vatican, pitting themselves against a coterie of colleagues who are longtime Vatican insiders.
Pope Benedict XVI's resignation the first by a pope in some 600 years sparked a flurry of discussion over a range of issues, including the management of the Vatican's bank and the sluggish pace of reforms at the Roman Curia, the administrative body of the Vatican.
The Society of Jesus, to give the order its official title, although proclaiming its unswerving loyalty to the Pope in Rome, has at various times in its history tangled with the Roman curia and has even been suppressed in many parts of the world, only to re-emerge.
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