Word: monsignore
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...Heywood Broun, accustomed to going to church only for funerals and weddings, did not know when to kneel or bow. Few of them had ever heard a funeral oration like that which was presently delivered to them by the man who last spring baptized Heywood Broun a Catholic: Monsignor Fulton John Sheen...
...enters the war, if Roman Catholics are drafted, and if they are not fully certain of the justice of the war, they must conscientiously object, "under pain of mortal sin." So, in the pacifist Catholic Worker, wrote Monsignor George Barry O'Toole, Catholic University philosophy professor. Said he: "Nowadays justification for an offensive war is practically impossible-the presumption is totally against it. Only if the Holy Father, whose decision in moral matters is infallible, were to call a crusade, could we be certain that sufficient justification existed...
...Austria's late Chancellor Seipel was a Monsignor, France's late great Richelieu a Cardinal...
...English translation by Monsignor Patrick Hurley of the Papal Secretariat of State, the encyclical was a lofty and solemn statement of Christian, rather than exclusively Catholic, doctrines for a world beset with "difficulties, anxieties and trials." He mentioned by name only two nations, "our dear Italy" and "our dear Poland." The great body of his encyclical Pius XII devoted to an examination of the "spiritual and moral bankruptcy of the present day," and of two "errors" in particular which menace "the peaceful intercourse of peoples...
...Sunday, in St. Peter's, Pius XII gave practical proof of his views on racism. He consecrated a dozen white, black, yellow and brown bishops and vicars apostolic,* for services in Africa and the Orient. One vicar apostolic, Monsignor Joseph Kiwanuka of Uganda, was the Church's first consecrated Negro since 1875 (when a Negro was bishop of Portland, Me.). The others: a Chinese, a Madagascarian, an Indian, two Americans, six Europeans...