Word: monsignore
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...John Lateran (Roman Catholic). Protestant President Doumergue of France was inducted (by proxy) as Canon.* The ceremony, attended by the whole Cathedral chapter, was a revival, after 100 years, of a distinction once granted the kings of France. The delicate matter had been arranged between Foreign Minister Briand and Monsignor Maglione, Papal Nuncio at Paris, at whose overture not stated. But at prospect of improved relations between the Holy See and official France, the Vatican, patient, tireless for the Lord on high, rejoiced...
...Monsignor Lorenzo Lauri, who succeeded Monsignor Achille Ratti as Apostolic Nuncio to Poland when he (the present Pope) was elevated to the Cardinalate in 1921. The other Italian whom His Holiness slated for elevation last week, is Monsignor Giuseppe Gamba, whom he appointed Archbishop of Turin in 1923. The investiture of the former will be performed by President Moscicki of Poland at Warsaw...
While U. S. clerics thus fulminated some British newspapers devoted scarcely ten lines to Bishop Manning's remarks, and the Archbishop of Canterbury refused to open his lips. Frenchmen and Italians read attentively a statement by Monsignor Massimi, Auditor of the Sacred Rota: "The declaration that the Rota's action was an intrusion and an impertinence leaves It unmoved because this is not the viewpoint of the Catholic Church. . . . The Catholic Church deems the Rota capable of examining the annulment not only of Protestant but of Jewish and Moslem marriages if the grounds are sufficient according to canon...
...short, blue-eyed man, clad in the street garb of a priest, hurried last week into the great building which houses the Nationalrat (Parliament) in Vienna. As he passed through gloomy corridors only the sharp-eyed saw at this seeming-priest's throat the purple rabat of a monsignor. None the less all present bowed with respect to Mgr. Ignaz Seipel. He had just been created?for the second time;? Chancellor (Premier) of Austria. He is thus at present the sole Christian prelate to head a civil government...
Pronouncements. The Pope, informed of Premier Mussolini's escape by Monsignor Pizzarde, acting secretary of State, was quoted as having exclaimed with emotion "Thank...