Word: monsignor
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...expect no Mexican, whether Indian or non-Indian, to become a martyr for his faith. It explains, furthermore, why the extraordinarily complex religious situation has not aroused the people, or excited them to offer violent resistance to the Government's measures. "My first call was upon the Archbishop, Monsignor Mora y del Rio. . . . The archepiscopal palace is near the flower market, in the older part of the city. That market occupies a plaza which illustrates one of the most attractive features of Mexico, where perpetual spring prevails and beautiful flowers are in bloom throughout the year. For a peso...
...Monsignor Mora y del Rio, who wore the robes and insignia of his office received me in a plainly furnished study containing a picture of the Virgin of Guadalupe. . . . He spoke Italian and was evidently touched by the visit of a journalist who had come expressly from the motherland of the Church to visit her persecuted outposts in Mexico. Indeed, so deep was his feeling that after the first few words he choked with emotion, and with tears flowing freely down his" cheeks he merely clasped my hands and murmured:'O Roma!Roma...
Knighthood. A Catholic quietly labors for the welfare of his neighbors. The parish priest notes; the monsignor notes; the bishop notes; the archbishop notes; the Pope notes-and one day His Holiness welcomes the quiet worker into an order of Roman Catholic knighthood, symbol of his Church's esteem. Two U. S. men last week were so knighted-Banker James J. Phelan of Boston as Knight Commander of the Order of Pius IX,- and retired Industrialist Cornelius Gallagher of Manhattan as Knight of St. Gregory...
While it rang, Monsignor Seampini, parish priest of the Apostolic Palaces, was proceeding through and blessing all the rooms of the Vatican. His duties done, he appeared before His Holiness, knelt and prayed, while holy water was sprinkled. Then the Pope placed coins in the holy water, to symbolize the Church's charity...
Later the royal party was driven to the great Church of Ste. Gudule, half way up the precipitous slope which ascends from the lower town to the royal and aristocratic quarter. At the church, Monsignor de Greve, representing Cardinal Mercier,* welcomed Prince Leopold in the name of the ecclesiastical authorities of Belgium. Finally the royal motors snorted up the last and steepest part of the hill, traversed the famed avenue once sacred to the residences of courtiers, brought Prince Leopold "home"- to what is considered by many architects "the handsomest modern royal palace in Europe...