Word: monsignor
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Ever since Monsignor Joseph Charbonneau's sudden resignation last month (TIME, Feb. 20), Quebec has been wondering who would take his place in Montreal's red brick archbishop's palace. When Rome announced Charbonneau's successor last week, he turned out to be a man whom few had thought of: Monsignor Paul-Emile Léger, 45, a native Quebecker who had spent half of his religious career outside Canada. So unexpected was his appointment that on the day of the announcement only one French newspaper in Montreal could produce his photograph...
...Montreal, the largest diocese of predominantly Roman Catholic Quebec, Monsignor Léger has one of the most delicate church assignments in North America. After more than three centuries of close alliance, church & state in Quebec are seriously at odds on social issues...
...Monsignor Stephen Fermoyle, Irish, good-looking and rising fast in the church, was in deep trouble. Only seven years after his ordination as a priest in Rome, he was back in the Holy City as a member of the Vatican Secretariat of State. He stood well in the Vatican, was the protege of Boston's Cardinal Glennon.* Now this brilliant son of a Massachusetts streetcar conductor saw both his soul and his career endangered by his love for a beautiful Italian countess. Instead of concentrating on his papal chores, he kept thinking of himself lying on the grass beneath...
...second week, on July 24 and 25, "The Role of Private Associations in the Welfare State" will be considered by Clinton S. Golden, lecturer on Labor Problems at the Business School, Monsignor Fulton Sheen, economist and lawyer Donald Richberg, and Stanley H. Ruttenberg, director of Research and Education for the C.I.O...
...forums will present five topics. Speaking on the first subject, "The Welfare State," will be Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr. '38, associate professor of History; Edward S. Mason, professor of Economics; Lerner, a professor of Government at William College; Herter, and Monsignor Sheen...