Word: monsignor
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...marked contrast to Episcopalian difficulties in Philadelphia was last week's Roman Catholic news there. Needing an auxiliary bishop for the diocese, Pope Pius simply appointed 34-year old Monsignor Gerald P. O'Hara of Philadelphia, now secretary to Philadelphia's Denis J Cardinal Dougherty...
...crisis now ended was precipitated by the resignation as chancellor of tall, bald, beak-nosed Monsignor Ignaz Seipel (TIME, April 15), whom the Pope is expected shortly to elevate to the post of cardinal, a holy office considered incompatible with the mundane status of a prime minister...
Seipel Resigns. In the historic Foreign Office of Imperial Austria, called the Ballhausplatz, Chancellor Monsignor Ignaz Seipel, tall, beak-nosed, and pinkly bald, assembled his Cabinet last week and without warning announced his resignation...
Leaning forward in a carved armchair at the Palazzo Chigi, Signor Benito Musso- lini sat with his hard chin cupped between contented palms, last week, watching newsreel flashes of Cardinals and Monsignors marching to the ballot box (TIME, April 1), attended by blaring brass bands and wildly cheering throngs. Never before have Princes of the Church shepherded their clergy and people to vote in a Parliamentary Election of the present Italian Kingdom. Always before the priesthood has abstained, urging their flocks to do likewise, in protest against the Government's suppression of the Pope's temporal power in 1870. Recently...
...Thus the Monsignor-Minister is a most interesting personage. His duties will cause him to move in three spheres, fortunately separate and distinct. In the sphere of the Pope temporal-that is to say on the streets of the Papal State, mingling with the temporal subjects of the Pope-he will move as a foreigner, a Jugoslav. In the sphere of the Pope spiritual he already has his being as a native. In the temporal sphere of King Alexander, he remains a loyal subject...