And he and the whole Vatican hierarchy knew about it.

The implications of this will be explored by the highest echelons of Pax Command and the Vatican hierarchy.

The higher levels of the Vatican hierarchy have expressed skepticism about The Poem of the Man God.

The excellent article confirms the inflexible attitude of the Vatican hierarchy.

In the Vatican hierarchy, the Secretary of State is the most important person after the Pope himself.

"The real offense is homophobia and antigay prejudice fueled by the Vatican hierarchy."

The period 1985-87 resulted in a hard time, with part of the Vatican hierarchy and of the "old missionaries" trying to bend him or expel him.

There is no Orthodox equivalent to the Catholic pope or the Vatican hierarchy, for instance, and penance and reconciliation are treated very differently.

He was the people's pope who defied the powerful Vatican hierarchy to order the convening of Vatican II.

Popes generally came from this nobility, to say nothing of the curia and Vatican hierarchy in general.