Word: monsignori
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...likely to be a Jesuit (the Society of Jesus produces many of the church's scientists). Possible choice: Australia's Father Daniel O'Connell, head of the Vatican Observatory. To replace ailing Cardinal Canali as deacon, the Pope will likely choose one of several Vatican monsignori. Among best bets for the remaining red hats: Archbishops Giovanni Battista Montini of Milan. Rufino Santos of Manila, Richard J. Gushing of Boston, Tatsuo Doi of Tokyo, William Godfrey of Westminster, Francis König of Vienna, John Landazuri Ricketts of Lima, Peru, and Joseph Maria Bueno y Monreal of Seville...
...serious ... 'I have no use for anybody who neglects his work for drink ing or for women. Work comes first. All the time. Drinking, like lovemaking, is for the evening hours and the short hours of the morning. Only bankers, utility moguls, insurance-company presidents, Methodist bishops, Catholic monsignori, managing editors of newspapers, and other such swine drink during...
...Catholic Father Sydney MacEwan, 45, started to sing in a small voice that recalled much of the bewitching sweetness of the late John McCormack. He sang the centuries-old songs of plaintive and merry love, of the sea and of the rugged Hebrides, while mink-jacketed matrons and sober monsignori dabbed al misty eyes. One of the favorites...
Fifty-six of the bishops and monsignori are in Eastern Europe. In Russia, Rumania, Albania and the Baltic countries (now part of the Soviet Union), the hierarchy has been virtually wiped out. In the other Iron Curtain countries, it has been badly crippled. Russian Bishop Boleslav Sloskans, imprisoned since 1927, is either dead or in Siberia. The Lithuanian bishop of Kaisedorys and the Estonian apostolic administrator have been sent to Siberia. One Hungarian bishop, the Vatican announced, "has probably died" in a concentration camp. In Yugoslavia, Titoist but still Communist, one bishop is in jail, two (including Archbishop Aloysius Stepinac...
...great men, its princes of the clergy from this world. The East Side's Al Smith lay below the sanctuary, in a shrouded casket on a catafalque flanked by six tall, flickering candles. The altar before it was bright with the purple garb of bishops and the monsignori...