Word: monsignori
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...facets of church activity. One was what they referred to as Ostpolitik des Vatikans. Despite the Vatican's obvious hostility to Communism, Hitler was obsessed with the illogical idea that Rome and the Russians were about to form an alliance. Thus when Pius in 1942 ordered two monsignori to study Russian, the order stirred apprehensive speculation in Berlin. Nazi leaders like Martin Bormann and Reinhardt ("The Hangman") Heydrich were also interested in what Heydrich called "political Catholicism." Certain that the church was attempting to establish a political alternative to the Nazi Party in Germany, they monitored all contacts between...
...love: footnote-stippled articles in somber technical journals that few laymen ever see. Their principal target was Rome's Jesuit-run Pontifical Biblical Institute, one of the two institutions in the world where Catholics can get a degree to teach Scripture.* In a series of finger-wagging papers, monsignori attached to Rome's Curia-principally Paolo Cecchetti, Antonino Romeo and Antonio Piolanti-began hinting that certain teachers...
...joining a board of trustees, and an intensely concerned one might reasonably aspire to succeed Industrialist J. Irwin Miller as president of the 40-million-member National Council of Churches. But among Catholics, the layman is low man in the ranks, subject to the spiritual orders of priests, monsignori, bishops, archbishops, cardinals and the Pope...
...Consistory Hall, followed in order of seniority by 29 purple-clad cardinals. As soon as he was seated on his throne, the papal master of ceremonies cried out, in accordance with" the rubrics of this historic ritual, "Extra omnes [Everyone outside]" A host of attending bishops and monsignori, the chamberlains and members of the Noble Guard bowed to the throne and withdrew; the doors were closed. The Pope, Bishop of Rome, Vicar of Christ, and absolute ruler of the largest religious body in Christianity, was left alone with his princes...
...just as pleased over selling a cassock at $40 as a cardinal's attire for $2,000. It is only good business, since many of his customers get ahead. "Over 70% of the cardinals we now serve," he says, "started coming to us when they were only monsignori...