Word: monsignor
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...procession, the men of God marched into the church. There Bishop Swint solemnly handed purple robes, a purple biretta and a white lace cotta (surplice) to a wrinkled-faced, white-haired old priest named Thomas Aquinas Quirk whom Pope Pius XI had elected to invest with the title Monsignor...
...College of the Incarnate Word near San Antonio, Tex. sits Pope Pius' staff commander in the stern fight for Mexican souls, Monsignor Leopoldo Ruiz y Flores, still Apostolic Delegate to Mexico, though ousted by its Government (TIME, Oct. 17, 1932). Last week in the pages of Catholicism's Commonweal appeared stirring details of soul warfare between State and Church...
...Monsignor Michael J. Lavelle welcomed Cardinal MacRory on behalf of Cardinal Hayes who was vacationing in Nassau. Piercingly blue-eyed and looking not unlike his New York colleague, the 73-year-old Irish Cardinal was whisked uptown to St. Patrick's Cathedral, where the bells tolled and 1,000 schoolgirls waved U. S. and Papal flags. Stepping out upon a green velvet carpet, Cardinal MacRory took from Monsignor Lavelle a crucifix, which he kissed, and a holy water hyssop, with which he sprinkled the congregation as he walked up the aisle. Wearing a scarlet ferraiuolo, the Cardinal prostrated himself...
Steadfast in his policy of rapidly advancing energetic young priests (see above), the Pope last week appointed not only the youngest bishop in the U. S. but also the first in the world born in the 20th Century. He was Very Rev. Monsignor Raymond Augustine Kearney, 32. His posts: titular bishop of Lisinia (Asia Minor), auxiliary bishop of the diocese of Brooklyn, N. Y. which includes all Long Island, is smaller (1,086,722 Catholics) only than the archdioceses of New York and Chicago. Jersey City-born, sandy-haired Bishop Kearney was ordained in 1927 in the Lateran Basilica...
...Daniels is a consummate jackass." So cried Monsignor Hugh L. Lamb, Chancellor of the Catholic Archdiocese of Philadelphia, in a speech about U. S. Ambassador to Mexico Josephus Daniels. "Daniels easily succumbed to the flattery of Plutarco Calles, the power in Mexico, who is known as the God-hater. He was wined and dined and private trains were placed at his disposal. . . . He has publicly expressed approval of the Socialistic and Communistic educational program...