Word: monsignor
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...must a contemporary saint be an activist? The Rev. George Webber, president of Manhattan's New York Theological Seminary, says yes: "When I think of a saint today, I think of a person who is willing to spend his whole life in a struggle for justice." Yet Monsignor Francis Lally, a member of the U.S. bishops conference staff, offers a gentle demurrer. "A saint is a person who puts himself in the service of others for spiritual reasons," he says. Just how one accomplishes that, adds Lally, may vary from age to age. "The activist has taken over...
...Died. Monsignor Josemaría Escrivá de Balaguer, 73, founder and president general of Opus Dei, the spiritually elitist Catholic lay organization that has 60,000 members in 73 countries; of a heart attack; in Rome. Founded in 1928, Opus Dei eventually became so influential in Spain that some critics accused it of wielding inordinate political and economic power...
...that politics is a lot of stale talk. Watergate flows in the book like so much flotsam. "Liddy had 50 Minoltas," remarks one character idly. Cavanaugh is amused by the fact that Vatican money financed the Watergate apartment building: "Maybe I should pay closer attention to what Monsignor Lally writes in the Pilot...
...first Jewish rabbi to enter the pulpit of St. Patrick's Cathedral, the New York City citadel of Roman Catholicism. After he spoke, hundreds of congregants strode 15 blocks up Fifth Avenue to Sobel's Temple Emanu-El-something of a cathedral for Reform Judaism-to hear Monsignor James Rigney, rector of St. Patrick's parish...
...Monsignor Eugene V. Clark, a spokesman for Cardinal Cooke of the New York archdiocese, fired off a heated telegram of protest to President Ford, demanding that Butz "apologize immediately or resign." A chastened Butz is sued a statement saying that his gaffe "was not intended to impugn the motives or the integrity of any religious group, ethnic group or religious leader...