Word: monsignor
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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When a News reporter called Monsignor Harold E. Collins, secretary to San Francisco's Archbishop John J. Mitty, to check the spelling of the priest's name, the Monsignor said: "No one in San Francisco has ever used a story like that...
...Gaulle continued his slow walk up the aisle toward Cardinal Suhard and Monsignor Beaussart, who never faltered either. A Te Deum was playing from the organ where the machine pistolers were hidden...
Palmiro Togliatti, leader of the Italian Communists, ostentatiously attended High Mass at a Naples church and conferred with Monsignor Giovanni Montini, acting Papal Secretary of State. Afterward, Togliatti said: "We respect religion and we ask that the Church respect us on the basis of mutual tolerance. . . . The Communist, Socialist and Christian Democrat [Catholic] parties have mass followings. . . . There is no reason why Italy's three great mass parties cannot be mutually accommodating...
...Said Monsignor Spellman...
Beneath St. Peter's dome stood Monsignor Enrico Pucci, head of the Vatican's semi-official news bureau. He looked out across the jeep-filled streets of the Eternal City and murmured: "Oh, it's just another changing of the guard...