Word: monsignore
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Knighthood. A Catholic quietly labors for the welfare of his neighbors. The parish priest notes; the monsignor notes; the bishop notes; the archbishop notes; the Pope notes-and one day His Holiness welcomes the quiet worker into an order of Roman Catholic knighthood, symbol of his Church's esteem. Two U. S. men last week were so knighted-Banker James J. Phelan of Boston as Knight Commander of the Order of Pius IX,- and retired Industrialist Cornelius Gallagher of Manhattan as Knight of St. Gregory...
While it rang, Monsignor Seampini, parish priest of the Apostolic Palaces, was proceeding through and blessing all the rooms of the Vatican. His duties done, he appeared before His Holiness, knelt and prayed, while holy water was sprinkled. Then the Pope placed coins in the holy water, to symbolize the Church's charity...
Later the royal party was driven to the great Church of Ste. Gudule, half way up the precipitous slope which ascends from the lower town to the royal and aristocratic quarter. At the church, Monsignor de Greve, representing Cardinal Mercier,* welcomed Prince Leopold in the name of the ecclesiastical authorities of Belgium. Finally the royal motors snorted up the last and steepest part of the hill, traversed the famed avenue once sacred to the residences of courtiers, brought Prince Leopold "home"- to what is considered by many architects "the handsomest modern royal palace in Europe...
...petals of this Rose with pink, the leaves with green, so that the spray glistens with a heart-stopping iridescence of varied movement and light. To aid verisimilitude the spray contains a secret phial which the Pope himself filled with balsam and essence of musk before handing it to Monsignor Ferdinand de Croji, whom he charged to deliver it to Queen Elizabeth as a testimonial of his esteem. The Rose, for the benefit of the calculating, weighs 1.100 kilograms (2b.). The base bears the inscription in Latin: "To Elizabeth, Queen of Belgium, given by Pius...
...Monsignor John L. Belford, rector of the Roman Catholic Church of the Nativity (Brooklyn) said: "I think we should keep the statue of Buddha out of the park by all means...