Word: monsignors
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...theater and 11th century basilica. He poured cash into the local soccer team, making it one of Europe's best, and financed programs for the poor, aids patients and drug addicts. Last February, when the Catholic Church was looking for funds to renovate a mountain clinic for asthmatic children, Monsignor Franco Grisenti only needed to ask, and his old friend Tanzi, 65, immediately made an interest-free loan of €400,000. "He's got that impulse in him to just say yes," the prelate marvels. Not all of Tanzi's impulses may have been so noble...
...Monsignor Stanislaw Dziwisz The pope's private secretary
...Monsignor Dennis F. Sheehan—who will take over some of Brennan’s duties in the fall—said transfer is part of life for members of most Catholic orders. “In an analogous way, it could happen to me tomorrow,” he said...
...local bishop to have him removed. But he kept his post for another year, until just before police were about to charge him for abusing both Collins and another woman. He pleaded guilty and was sentenced to 18 months. Before the trial, the Cardinal's right-hand man, Monsignor Alex Stenson, wrote Collins that McGennis had admitted abusing multiple children. But when she gave the letter to police, Stenson was furious and threatened to sue her. The church never turned over its full dossier on McGennis to police and Stenson refused to give a written statement. Subsequently, it emerged that...
...when he became the first non-Italian Pope in more than four centuries, John Paul II made sure to bring along from Cracow his trusted personal secretary, Monsignor Stanislaw Dziwisz (pronounced Geevish), who started working for him in 1966. When the Pope was shot in 1981, it was Dziwisz who caught the fallen Pontiff in his arms--and he has been by the Pope's side ever since. Dziwisz sleeps next door to the Pope's bedroom, stands just over the Pope's shoulder during Mass and, apart from certain one-on-one meetings, is with the Pope virtually every...