ABSTRACT
The restoration of traditional papal pomp at the commemoration of the Council of Trent on December " was bitterly disappointing to many at the Council. The practical effect of the document, entitled Pastorale Munus, was to free bishops from applying periodically to the Roman Curia for renewal of some forty "faculties" or powers. In addition the Pope granted the bishops eight privileges or concessions. Pope John XXIII had stirred Rome's imagination simply by driving across the city to visit the prisoners of Regina Coeli. As the Council seemed stymied–or at least so "balanced" as no longer to be making much forward motion, however much hard, effective work it was doing in solidifying its gains-Pope Paul was showing how far open the windows had already been thrown. As he visited the old Jerusalem, he cast an image of the new city which Roman Catholicism had become.
