Word: monsignor
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Rome, an official spokesman again said that 1) the Vatican had no knowledge of Pegler's ever talking with any high official, and 2) there is no such thing as a Vatican specialist on labor matters. Perhaps, said the Vatican spokesman charitably, Pegler talked to some priest or monsignor, who either personally shared his views or was just trying to be polite and asked Pegler for a report on labor...
...grateful recipient of Msgr. Ronnie Knox's unremitting kindnesses at Oxford, I am personally grateful for your brilliantly conceived portrait of him in the Feb. 11 issue of TIME. The idea of becoming a Cardinal would, I feel certain, horrify Ronnie. He unsuccessfully resisted being made a Monsignor, and for quite a while after that event, his only recognition of his elevation was to wear a brand new piece of adhesive tape at the top of his cassock in lieu of the customary Roman collar...
...Monsignor Knox is probably the outstanding Roman Catholic churchman in Britain. He has recently completed the first Catholic translation of the complete Bible into English in more than 350 years. Novelist Evelyn Waugh has suggested that, as Bible reading declines among non-Catholics, Knox's Bible may some day be the best-known version in English. Its clearness and freshness of style have made readers feel they were opening a new book...
...innocence. It regrets Belgrade's reference to "the former archbishop"-no state, in the Vatican view, has the right to elevate or depose a prelate. Finally, there is the fate of the Roman Catholic Church in Yugoslavia. Said the Vatican's Osservatore Romano: "Another bishop, His Excellency Monsignor Peter Cule of Mostar, is still unjustly held in jail . . . Fully 200 priests and religious are in prison. Seminaries are still held requisitioned, and monasteries and convents are still confiscated . . . Freedom of worship ... is suffocated...
...Archbishop Cushing has received hundreds of complaints about Feeney, and as many demands that he be excommunicated. Cushing says merely that Feeney is one of the great minds of the modern church, even though he went wrong, and should be prayed for. He will say no more about what Monsignor Hickey calls "nobody's business...