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...MONSIGNOR IRVING A. DE BLANC...
...aggravate already troublesome situations. Best guesses are that at least two of the three secret cardinals are actually Vatican officials. Pope John is keeping their names secret in order to hold them to their present assignments (which they would have to give up if publicly appointed). Most likely candidates: Monsignor Enrico Dante, Prefect of Pontifical Ceremonies; Monsignor Antonio Samore, Secretary of the Sacred Congregation for Extraordinary Ecclesiastical Affairs; Monsignor Acacio Coussa, Assessor for the Holy Congregation for the Oriental Church; and Monsignor Giuseppe Ferretto, Secretary of the Sacred College. The foreign favorites: Monsignor Juan Landázuri Ricketts, Archbishop...
Since in pectore appointments are often made for political reasons, when public recognition from Rome might jeopardize a cardinal in his own country, Pope John's announcement touched off a rash of speculation about likely candidates in the Iron Curtain countries. Possibilities: Archbishop Josef Beran of Prague; Monsignor Franjo Seper, former assistant to Yugoslavia's late Cardinal Stepinac...
...years in Vancouver, "His Grace, the Most Reverend Monsignor" Wolsey has operated a ramshackle edifice called the "Temple of the More Abundant Life." For Wolsey, the abundant life has been worth an estimated $1,500,000. Sources: a tithe on the faithful, and a supply of pretyped wills for the signatures of elderly women. When anyone threatens desertion, the "Master of This Age" simply thunders: "If you leave, you goddamned fool, both of your children will be dead within a month...
...78th birthday. His three-room apartment in the quiet Munich suburb of Bogenhausen is a center of Roman Catholic intellectual life in Germany, with an almost equally strong attraction for many Protestants. Just out of the hospital (where he underwent surgery for an ailment described only as neuralgia), Monsignor Romano Guardini again presided over his "Laboratory of Ideas," with its long refectory table, its delicate Gothic Madonna standing against red velvet, its record collection, and its thousands of books, including three shelves of his own writings on everything from theology to movies...