Word: monsignor
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...surprisingly little controversy in France itself. When the Bishop of Orleans publicly castigated the government's nuclear armament policy last week, Admiral Marc de Joybert, naval chief of staff, haughtily told the bishop in an open letter to Le Figaro: "Take care of your own onions. Your job, Monsignor, is to teach the faith and spread charity. Our role is to defend France." For the time being at least, the French public seemed more concerned with the battle between the bishop and the admiral than with the contaminated winds sweeping the Pacific...
...fleet-footed running back was sentenced to 30 days in a Lincoln, Neb., jail for driving with a suspended license. Rodgers' lawyer had attempted to get him a work release program at Boys Town, the school near Omaha for orphans and other underprivileged youngsters. But the director, Monsignor Nicholas H. Wegner, seemed to think they had no room for big bad boys. "We don't want him," he said...
...Digger tells the Greek to go climb a tree. But he knows he's going to have to pay anyway because the Greek knows people who can be hired to break other people's knees with baseball bats. He goes to see his brother Paul, a monsignor in Boston, who has helped him out of bad spots before...
After the war, Touvier was twice sentenced to death in absentia by French courts. He took refuge in French monasteries and convents for 20 years, until the statute of limitations on his crimes expired in 1967. Touvier had a powerful protector in Monsignor Charles Duquaire, a French prelate with influence in both Paris and the Vatican. Duquaire waged a ten-year campaign to gain Touvier a full presidential pardon, which General Charles...
...Angelo Rossi asked what had impressed him most about the trip; was it the audience with His Holiness? "No," was the reply, "I am always calm when I see the Pope. But if there is one personality I stand a little in awe of, that is Monsignor Montini. He always nitpicks my reports." Those reports could not have been all bad. Nitpicker Montini-now Pope Paul VI-eventually ordered an investigation, now in the works, of Pope John's qualifications for sainthood...