Word: monsignor
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...MONSIGNOR WILLIAM THEODORE HEARD, 75, a convert from the Church of Scotland (as a 26-year-old lawyer) to Catholicism, who will be the first Scottish cardinal since the death of Charles Cardinal Erskine in 1811. "He may also," speculated the London Times, "be the first Oxford rowing Blue in the history of the Church to achieve the purple." Since 1927 Heard has served at the Vatican on the Sacred Roman Rota, the high ecclesiastical court that passes on applications for marriage annulments. The Vatican expects Pope John to make use of Monsignor Heard's legal abilities in preparing...
...MONSIGNOR FRANCESCO MORANO, 87, oldest of the new cardinals, but hale and lively-minded. A scholar with degrees in philosophy, theology, canon and civil law, physics and mathematics, he will almost certainly be one of the staff planning and preparing for the Ecumenical Council...
...MONSIGNOR GUSTAVO TESTA, 73, born to a wealthy family in Italy's Bergamo Province, where John XXIII was a peasant boy, and close friend of the present Pope since they were fellow students in Rome. Like John, he has spent most of his career in the Vatican diplomatic service, having held posts in Austria, Germany, Peru, Egypt, Palestine and Switzerland...
...MONSIGNOR PAOLO MARELLA, 64, Italian with a broad background in papal diplomacy. Since 1953 he has held Pope John's former post as papal nuncio in Paris...
...among other projects, are the marble interior of the shrine, eleven chapels which will project from the outside of the building, and some 20 altars within. Catholics will have contributed more than $30 million by the time the shrine is completed ($18 million has been raised so far). Says Monsignor Thomas J. Grady, fifth director of the shrine project: "God was good to us. In the five years it took to build the upper church-with as many as 200 men a day working 200-300 feet up-no one was killed or seriously injured...