Word: monsignor
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Pleasing to the Holy See was a despatch from Chile, last week, announcing that the Archbishop of Santiago, Monsignor Crescentio Errazuriz, had so far prevailed on the Chilean Government to modify its Constitutional attempt to suppress Roman Catholic instruction in the schools that hereafter such instruction will be optional with the parents of pupils. It will be imparted not by State paid teachers; but by priests whose expenses must be defrayed by the Church...
Died. Most Reverend Robert Seton, 88, Titular Archbishop of Heliopolis, Egypt, senior Monsignor in the U. S., head of the ancient Scottish family, Setons of Parbroath; grandson of Elizabeth Seton, eminent Roman Catholic who founded the U. S. Sisters of Charity; as the result of a slight shock; at St. Elizabeth College (also founded by his grandmother) near Morristown...
...fortnight ago, in the course of his continued-in-our-next speech against Catholics, James Thomas Heflin of Alabama said in the U. S. Senate: "Monsignor Belford is a villainous and scurrilous little Catholic puppy up here in the State of New York, who edits or writes for a little sheet called The Mentor, and who suggests that a thug be hired to waylay and attack me. I could pinch his brains out between my thumb and forefinger...
...Scutari the Archbishop of Albania, Monsignor Mjeda, declared last week, ex cathedra: "The recent Italo-Albanian treaty of Tirana (TIME, Dec. 13) is an outrage, and reduces Albania's independence to nullity...
...Right Rev. Thomas M. O'Keefe, pastor of the Church of St. Benedict the Moor, presided at the opening; and many another white priest assisted. God might look like Monsignor O'Keefe, thought many a Negro child newly inducted into Catholicism, but surely the Holy Spirit was like Mother Superior M. Theodore of the Handmaids. Her order of black nuns was founded at Savannah, Ga., only nine years ago to show the beauties of their Church to Negroes. But when the centre of Negro immorality, by Church definition, definitely shifted to Harlem, the Mother House...