The Pope is a Prisoner of Curia Hardliners
Oct 21, 2004
On the eve of the sixth extraordinary Consistory of cardinals in Rome, Cardinal Aloisio Lorscheider of Brazil said that the pontiff was a prisoner of Curia hardliners.
(Times, 24 May 2001) On the eve of the sixth extraordinary Consistory of cardinals in Rome, Cardinal Aloisio Lorscheider of Brazil said that the pontiff was a prisoner of Curia hardliners, a remark aimed at conservatives such as Cardinal Camillo Ruini, the Vicar of Rome and a possible Pope, and Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger, head of the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith.