Word: monsignors
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...drawing from their own people, and that's part of who we are as Catholics," says Monsignor Edward Burns, head of priestly and vocational services for the bishops conference. "We need to identify the future leaders of the church, and just as the parish comes forth and celebrates with bread and wine and the sacraments, sometimes parents in a community feel this need to pray and say to God, if you want one of my sons to serve you, by all means touch his heart...
...fire." Still, there is a sense that something is changing in Rome, which for decades has focused all dialogue with other faiths on "finding common ground." Asked at Friday's press conference if the conversation between the Catholic Church and Muslims is bound to get more frank, Monsignor Pier Luigi Celata, secretary of the Vatican's pontifical council for inter-religious dialogue, said: "We have to go forward, with more courage than before. This was necessary...
...Cardinal, of course, denies all. Why, he contends, in a videotaped deposition that Berg has unearthed, he barely knew the man and has no useful memories of him - so many priests under his command, so little time. He has an equally slippery monsignor supporting this claim. Berg has also found letters from Mahoney to O?Grady that suggest he was closer to the priest than he has been letting on. The videotapes are particularly damning. It is fascinating to observe a Prince of the Church rather obviously not telling the whole truth. What a porous recall the man enjoys...
Perhaps the most egregious offense is the presence of a shifty emissary from the Catholic Church named Monsignor De Angelis who may or may not a by-the-book villain—either “a man of God with a gun, or a gunman who’s found...
...rumor of its publication has stirred intriguing discussion. Queried by the newspaper La Stampa, Vatican historian Monsignor Walter Brandmuller noted that the tractate might shed light on early Christianity even if the text had eventually been found heretical. Vittorio Messori, a layman who has co-written books with Popes John Paul II and Benedict XVI (when he was Joseph Cardinal Ratzinger) is more effusive. "Jesus' words about Judas ["It would have been good for that man if he had not been born"] are tough," he told TIME. But "Judas wasn't guilty. He was necessary. Somebody had to betray Jesus...