Word: monsignor
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Tour d'Argent to dine. Once there, you look" at the scene. Shirley Temple Black, unable to flag a cab on a rainy day, was conveyed to the restaurant by gallant gendarmes in a Black Maria. Terrail also relates that a distinguished Roman Catholic prelate, Monsignor Fernand Maillet, loved late dinners at La Tour. "As he was obliged by ecclesiastical rules to stop eating at midnight so that he could conduct early morning Mass," Terrail says, "he was in the habit of turning his watch back an hour so that he could have a Sainte Geneviève souffl...
ILLICH HAS a fascinating background. Austrian by birth, he studied history, philosophy and theology in Rome, Salzburg and Vienna. He served as an assistant pastor in a Puerto Rican parish in New York City for five years and then as a monsignor and vice-rector of the Catholic University of Puerto Rico for another four years. He was dismissed from the latter post in 1960 after a controversy arose over his role in the island's birth control program. He then helped found the Intercultural Documentation Center in Cuernavace, Mexico, where he wrote Celebration of Awareness, Deschooling Society and Tools...
...LEARY. IF HE'S NOT IN CHURCH, HE'S PROBABLY IN JAIL. As it turns out, O'Leary is a chaplain at the Manhattan House of Detention, the infamous Tombs. Other ads show a black priest who runs a community center in Harlem, and a monsignor in Peekskill, N.Y., whose most important job, during a twelve-hour working day, "is to celebrate the Mass...
...ground among U.S. Catholics. It is being led by theologians, canon lawyers and even concerned bishops. The latest arguments for change include a sharp criticism of Roman Catholic annulment procedures by the Canon Law Society of America, and a thoughtful book entitled Divorce and Remarriage for Catholics? (Doubleday) by Monsignor Stephen J. Kelleher, onetime presiding judge of the marriage tribunal of the Archdiocese of New York...
Welcome Home. In his book, Monsignor Kelleher recommends scrapping the tribunal system because it imposes a legal solution on what is essentially a complex personal affair. The better the courts work, Kelleher says, the closer they come to granting de facto divorces with permission to remarry. The process demeans both the law and the marriage partners, he argues, because it requires a declaration that the first marriage never existed, often on grounds that imply that one or both partners were somehow unstable. Kelleher does not say that the church can or should "dissolve" a troubled marriage, but rather that...