Word: monsignore
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...Pasolini at his best has created something more noble and touching than a Marxist Messiah, and more authentic than the customary sun-kissed Hollywood Christ. The film's dialogue, for example, comes intact from the Book of Matthew (with English subtitles translated according to the English edition by Monsignor Ronald Knox...
There is no real evidence that Opus Dei has political aims. If some of its members hold top positions in the Franco government, others, such as Christian Democrat Florentine Pérez Embid and Liberal Monarchist Rafael Calvo Serer, are prominent opponents of the regime. Says Monsignor Escrivá: "Opus Dei will always include all tendencies that the Christian conscience will allow...
...part for all; C, condemned. Today two new ratings have been added: A-III, for adults only, and A-IV, for adults with reservations (dubbed "the thinking man's category"). Almost every "problem" movie is viewed by the Legion two or three times-by its executive secretary, Monsignor Thomas F. Little and his associates, by a selection of college alumnae, and by the specialist consultors, who submit written evaluations of the film...
...cheeky, one-year-old exception is Kansas City's National Catholic Reporter, owned and edited by laymen who take orders from no one (although they get moral and financial support from Missouri Bishop Charles Helmsing). "It is the freshest thing that has appeared in Catholic journalism," says Monsignor Francis J. Lally of the Boston Pilot...
...discreet endorsement of the United Nations tucked into Pope John XXIII's 1963 encyclical Pacem in Terris was a tip-off that Rome foresaw fruitful cooperation with the U.N. in a common goal: peace. Last year Pope Paul VI tightened the link by sending a tactful monsignor to the U.N. as the Vatican's official observer. Last week, just as the serious turn of war between India and Pakistan heightened Paul's worries over man killing man, the Vatican announced that Paul will go to New York on Oct. 4 and make a plea for peace before...