Word: monsignors
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Monsignor Joseph A. McCaffrey, it often seemed as if the devil himself had been the architect of his parish. At night, the streets teem with vagrants, homosexuals and brazen hookers. Bookstores flaunt their pornographic wares, and nudie movie houses flicker a mix of erotica and violence almost until dawn. As pastor of New York's Holy Cross Roman Catholic Church on 42nd Street, only two blocks off Broadway, McCaffrey spent 36 years crusading against the seamy side of the Great White Way. Acting like a one-man Legion of Decency, he won the newspaper title "Bishop of Times Square...
...likes to point out that he has belonged to the Church of England since his London boyhood. Though Chicago Daily News Columnist Virginia Kay awarded him "the Shockingly Bad Taste Award of the Year, Decade and Century," teenagers across the country latched onto the dresses by the rackful. Commented Monsignor Joseph T.V. Snee, who oversees all 8,000 Catholic nuns in the Archdiocese of New York: "If the women of our times have now decided to imitate the religious garb of our sisters, I sure wish they would also try to imitate their habits-especially those of modesty, purity...
Place of Confrontation. Exercising sanctuary privileges will, at best, only delay the inexorable law. Yet many clergymen are delighted with the opportunity to use their houses of worship in what they feel is an openly defiant way of supporting dissent. Roman Catholic Monsignor George W. Casey of St. Brigid's Church in Boston says that he finds some comfort in the fact that draft resisters-most of them nonreligious-have sought the church "as a place of confrontation. Church has been fading from the sight of young America. We hear the word 'irrelevant' so often it makes...
Among the contributors were Canon Charles Moeller and Monsignor Pietro Pavan, both of them officials of the Vatican's Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith, which sets the rules for censorship in the church...
...Bringing Up Baby. Tracy's seamed old face knits together, and his chin goes up like that of an Indian chief reading threatening smoke signals. The Negro maid upbraids Poitier as a "smooth-talking, smart-ass nigger" taking advantage of her little girl. Only the family friend, lovable Monsignor Ryan (Cecil Kellaway), is unfazed, as a good Catholic priest should...