Word: monsignor
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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With One Voice? The official White House announcement pointed out that 37 countries maintain diplomatic relations with the Vatican. Their representatives attend Vatican ceremonies, vouch for countrymen who request papal audiences. They call frequently at the red-walled office of Monsignor Giovanni Battista Montini, Under Secretary of State for ordinary affairs, to exchange information from other lands. Under a new committee-of-cardinals secretariat soon to be established, a U.S. ambassador would deal largely with a cardinal appointed to handle North American affairs, probably an American...
...leaguers, known as the beatas (the pious ones), were scandalized. Father Eduardo Ospina, Jesuit professor of art at the Universidad Javeriana, sided with the beatas: "Crowds don't possess the artistic capacity to appreciate the total beauty of the human body." Bogotá's Roman Catholic archbishop, Monsignor Crisanto Luque, formally asked the Education Ministry (which runs the museum) to take the offending ladies down...
...When Monsignor Edward Westenberger spotted an article called "Margaret Sanger: Mother of Planned Parenthood" in the July Reader's Digest (circ. 15 million), he saw his duty and did it. As director of parochial schools of the Catholic Diocese of Green Bay, Wis., Westenberger banned the Digest from the 125 schools under his supervision. The offending article, said he, was "unpatriotic, unChristian, and vicious propaganda...
Last week the leftish Nation, which has seldom found itself on the same side of the fence as the conservative Digest, dropped a crocodile tear as it extended its "professional sympathy, somewhat ruefully." Said the Nation: "[Monsignor Westenberger's] epithets . . . must have caused a shudder in Pleasantville...
...loophole in the constitution by providing annulments for incompatibility-under strict controls. The impossibility of legally ending a marriage, he believed, was the root of intolerable matrimonial tangles in Brazil. At every pause in his 98-page speech, Carneiro was rebutted by a sharp-witted Roman Catholic priest, Monsignor Arruda Camara, who is also a Deputy. Monsignor Arruda held out against the slightest relaxation of the constitutional provision. Cried he to Carneiro: "Where the constitution says 'marriage is an indissoluble tie,' Your Excellency says 'dissoluble.' Where the constitution says 'no,' Your Excellency says...