Word: monsignor
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Palestrina to Berlin. The French, numbering 32 boys, wore knee pants and white stockings for the secular half of their program (seven, whose voices had changed, wore long pants), switched to white robes for sacred songs. They performed both with easy professionalism. Led by greying, bearlike Monsignor Fernand Maillet, 59, they bubbled with lighthearted precision in such frolics as Frère Jacques and Alouette, brilliantly worked their way through a difficult cantata written for them by Darius Milhaud, and spun out an incredibly pure, otherworldly tone in the age-old Gregorian chant, Tenebrae Factae Sunt...
...Catholics gathered in front of the cathedral on the Plaza de Mayo, then paraded through the downtown streets. The government labeled the marchers "vandals," accused them of burning an Argentine flag. At midweek, Perón ordered two high-ranking Argentine prelates - Bishop Manuel Tato and Monsignor Ramón Pablo Novoa -expelled from the country on the ground that they had incited the flag-burners. The following day came the Vatican excommunication...
...discussion of Catholic teachings on the subject of conscience and the individual, Monsignor Francis J. Lally. editor of the Pilot, official newspaper of the Boston archdiocese, emphasized the pre-eminence of moral law over statutory law. "There is a higher law than the law of the land. We must put moral law above the law of the land; conscience must always receive the first choice...
Rome's Sacred Congregation for the Propagation of the Faith last week announced the excommunication, three years ago, of Monsignor Li Wei-Kwang, onetime Vicar General of the Archdiocese of Nanking. His offense: "Acting by word and deed against the legitimate authority of the representative of the Supreme Pontiff in China." The excommunication was not published until now, in hopes that the erring priest might mend his ways. Instead, according to Osservatore Romano, Li has recently become "leader and proclaimer among Christians of movements that have the purpose of dividing Catholics and changing the essence of the only church...
...rather be the editor of the Register than Cardinal Archbishop of New York," says Monsignor Matthew John Wilfred Smith, 63, of Denver, Colo. Monsignor Smith is not settling for too little. As editor and boss of the Catholic Register, he is not only the No. 1 press lord of Catholicism, but he runs the biggest and most successful chain of religious newspapers in the world. His national edition and 35 diocesan editions-all of them brightly edited, eight-column weeklies-have a combined circulation...