Word: monsignors
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...late last month at the Paulist Center Community in Boston, scene of the third-and by far the largest -National Conference for Divorced Catholics. Some 200 women and 100 men-a number of them already remarried-turned up to talk out their problems. They also endorsed a proposal by Monsignor Stephen Kelleher, a Catholic canon lawyer, that the church allow Catholics "to divorce and remarry openly and wholesomely in Christ...
Moon's public religious face is that of a brotherhood-minded Christian clergyman and founder of the "ecumenical" Unification Church. At a Waldorf banquet in his honor last week, a monsignor offered the opening prayer, and another Catholic, Seer Jeane Dixon, gushed, "Bless you, Reverend Moon, for your message...
...member of BIRTHRIGHT, a prolife, alternative-to-abortion group, I was appalled to read of the refusal to baptize Nathaniel Morreale because his mother supported the establishment of an abortion-information clinic. Father Roussin and Monsignor Meehan have failed to grasp the basic moral premise of the prolife philosophy: the child, born or unborn, should never be discriminated against for the sins or misfortunes of his parents. For example, a fetus should not be punished by murder because his father was a rapist or his mother was pregnant out of wedlock. The fetus, and by extension the infant, is always...
...there were. When the couple arrived at the church, Mrs. Morreale was told that her son would not be baptized unless and until she withdrew her support of the proposed abortion clinic. Roussin and the church's pastor, Monsignor Francis X. Meehan, feared that her views on abortion so seriously contradicted church teachings that the child could not be brought up as a believing Catholic. They may have misunderstood Mrs. Morreale, who says she does not favor abortion herself, only the right of others to choose it. But one church canon does enjoin priests from baptizing an infant unless...
...convincingly, that he was just an innocent hobbyist who had bought the medal for a song from coworkers. Within the month, three other telephone men had been arrested, and details of several break-ins emerged. Not only had the Pope been ripped off, but so had his secretary, Monsignor Pasquale Macchi, whose study had been fleeced of coins, a jeweled pectoral cross and a gold watch...