Word: baggio
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...most notably, Archbishop Ubaldo Calabresi, the papal nuncio in Argentina. Backing Calabresi were the Pope's top aide, Secretary of State Agostino Cardinal Casaroli; Archbishop Achille Silvestrini, his "foreign minister," who had once favored the trip but turned against the idea when the battles began; and Sebastiano Cardinal Baggio, prefect of the Pontifical Commission for Latin America. In a business-as-usual decision, such a power bloc would have won hands down. But this was an unusual situation, and John Paul is no rule-book Pontiff. Inside Vatican corridors, officials only half jokingly use the term the Panzer...
...They survive in spite of a welfare system out of control, schools and social services in disarray, flagrant corruption and a bureaucracy so swollen and inept that it is mocked as lacci e laccioli, shackles and snares. A letter arrived two weeks ago at the home of one Giuseppe Baggio in Bassano Del Grappa. Baggio had mailed it to his mother from a military prison camp 37 years ago. Many Italians were surprised: the letter had actually arrived...
...veal in wine, cheese, chestnut tart, fresh fruit and selected Italian wines, the same menu that the other travelers enjoyed. Conferring with him over lunch were Giuseppe Caprio, the No. 2 man in the Vatican Secretariat of State; Agostino Casaroli, the so-called Vatican foreign minister; and Sebastiano Cardinal Baggio, the main Vatican liaison to the bishops' meeting...
...Trujillo and the top Vatican planner for CELAM, Sebastiano Cardinal Baggio, began advance work to avoid Me-dellin-type surprises. The theme would be "evangelization," hardly a radical buzzword, and the site would be Puebla, the most traditional and pious city in Mexico. There would be fewer advisers, and they would be more conservative. Limitations would be placed on the participation of members of religious orders, who are often more militant than diocesan priests...
...Curia factor and the search for pastoral skill and charisma make the outlook more uncertain for the most capable of the Italians, Giovanni Benelli, 57, the quintessential Vatican bureaucrat who assumed pastoral duties in the See of Florence only last year. For various reasons the other Italian possibilities-Baggio, Poletti, Poma, Siri-face even longer odds...