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...Monsignor Royford, an American-born prelate who has made his niche among Belgravia's "ancient dames and debutante Pekinese...
Instantly, a marvelous change sweeps over the diners. In a trice, Oilman Calan has rigged a rope around a chimney, and Lounge Lizard Freddy Deline, the onetime acrobat, is dexterously swinging himself down to the precarious peer. Fashionable Monsignor Royford crawls steadfastly along a narrow ledge, twelve stories above the ground, to give absolution. Katie Diss prays to God for the first time in many years...
...millions of Christians, among the persecutors of Christ." But Graz was disturbed. Wrote the Grazer Montag: "In a church this sort of thing has no place." Church officials decided to keep the window as it is. Said the parish prelate, Dr. Franz Fabian: "After all, Michelangelo painted a monsignor he didn't like* into an inferno scene...
...Pope Paul Ill's master of ceremonies, Monsignor Biagio da Cesena, objected to the many nude figures in Michelangelo's Last Judgment. In revenge, Michelangelo rounded out the picture with a caricature of Biagio as Minos, a character from Hades with ass's ears and a serpent around his midriff. When Biagio protested, the witty Pope replied: "If the painter had sent you to purgatory, I would have done my best to get you out. But I have no influence in hell...
This summer, Townsend's efforts to teach the natives Christian ethics landed him in trouble with the Roman Catholic Church in Peru. The apostolic vicar for the jungle area, Monsignor Buenaventura Uriarte, boomed: "Townsend's institute is engaged in an active and purposeful campaign to convert our jungle Indians to evangelistic Protestantism." Methodist Townsend, a member of Los Angeles' Church of the Open Door, vigorously denied any sectarianism, but the cry was taken up by the conservative press in Lima. For a while, it looked as if Townsend's good works were...