Word: monsignor
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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After God and his neighbor, Monsignor Maurice S. Sheehy loves the U.S. Navy. His regular job is teaching (he heads the Department of Religious Education at Washington's Catholic University of America), but he served five years as a naval chaplain in World War II, holds a captaincy in the Naval Reserve, and confesses to being "the most biased man in the world about the U.S. Navy. . . To me 'gob' means God's Own Boys...
...have fled since 1945. Its frontier outposts: a dozen relief stations in Western Europe (mainly Austria), where the Hungarian Caritas (Catholic welfare organization), financed by U.S. Catholics, gives shelter to Hungarians of all sects who manage to slip across the border. The Vatican's man in charge: Monsignor Josef Zagon, 42, onetime chancellor of the diocese of Györ and follower of Cardinal Mindszenty, who escaped from Hungary just before the cardinal's arrest...
...minister to exiled Hungarians wherever they may be, Monsignor Zagon bears the title, Apostolic Visitor Extraordinary. The title reflects the worldwide dispersal of his flock: 100,000 of them in Free Europe, another 100,000 scattered in North and South America and Australia. One of Zagon's jobs is to provide them with Hungarian-speaking priests, from a pool of more than 250 who are under his administrative direction. He also has general responsibility for 125 Hungarian seminarians, now continuing their theological studies at various European schools-men who can carry on the old tradition...
...made a direct offer to the Vatican last month to release imprisoned Archbishop Stepinac. Tito's condition: that Stepinac leave Yugoslavia the moment he is released. Last week the Vatican reported Tito's offer-and its own reply: no bargain. "The Holy See would be pleased if Monsignor Stepinac were freed," said the answer to Tito. "The Holy See is informed, however, that that Most Excellent Prelate, being convinced of his innocence, prefers to remain near his faithful." That seemed to hand Tito's awkward dilemma right back to Tito...
...Lombard village cobbler, young "Beppo" Sarto was as bright as he was poor, but he never lost his humility. Even when he was a fledgling country priest, his powerful sermons attracted attention beyond his own parish. He was raised to be a monsignor, then Bishop of Mantua, in 1893 Cardinal Patriarch of Venice. He made a point of giving away everything that he had. In his will he wrote: "I was born poor, I have lived poor, and I wish to die poor...