Word: monsignore
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...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...
...late last month at the Paulist Center Community in Boston, scene of the third-and by far the largest -National Conference for Divorced Catholics. Some 200 women and 100 men-a number of them already remarried-turned up to talk out their problems. They also endorsed a proposal by Monsignor Stephen Kelleher, a Catholic canon lawyer, that the church allow Catholics "to divorce and remarry openly and wholesomely in Christ...
Moon's public religious face is that of a brotherhood-minded Christian clergyman and founder of the "ecumenical" Unification Church. At a Waldorf banquet in his honor last week, a monsignor offered the opening prayer, and another Catholic, Seer Jeane Dixon, gushed, "Bless you, Reverend Moon, for your message...