Word: monsignors
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...simple white albs, 77 candidates for the priesthood prostrated themselves before the high altar of St. Peter's Basilica last week as the Supreme Pontiff invoked the blessings of the saints in heaven. Then, while the group knelt in four neat rows, Pope John Paul, followed by Monsignor Alvaro del Portillo, laid hands on the candidates' heads to convey to them the powers of priesthood...
...events of the past three years have enhanced Opus' stature. In 1981, the Vatican took the first steps toward the canonization of Opus' founder, Spanish Monsignor Josemaria Escrivá de Balaguer, who died in 1975. Sainthood would vindicate the movement's creation under "divine inspiration," as the Pope has described it, since Escrivá's personality, words and works are the essence of Opus...
...American churchman moved up in the reshuffle. Monsignor John P. Foley, 48, editor of Philadelphia's official archdiocesan weekly, the Catholic Standard and Times, was named head of the Pontifical Commission for Social Communications, thereby becoming, in effect, the Vatican's top information officer...
...confirms that the armed forces have asked the church to send priests to visit military command posts and give talks on human rights to soldiers and officers. "The origin of the revolution has its roots in tremendous social injustice. The violence will not disappear until that injustice is reduced." Monsignor Rivera y Damas does not possess the charisma of Monsignor Romero, but beneath his affable air and sleepy eyes, he is extremely shrewd. Many say that he has managed to unite progressives and conservatives in the Salvadoran church with his moderate position. His theory that only reforms will neutralize insurrection...
...attack last week. In neighboring El Salvador, the nation's two highest-ranking prelates became targets of a campaign of intimidation by death squads. In a terse communique delivered to a radio station, the rightist Maximiliano Hernandez Martinez Anti-Communist Brigade warned Archbishop Arturo Rivera y Damas and Monsignor Gregorio Rosa Chávez that they would suffer "drastic consequences" if their Sunday sermons did not stop criticizing human rights violations and urging dialogue with leftist guerrillas. The menace was taken seriously: El Salvador's last archbishop, Oscar Arnulfo Romero, was assassinated in 1980 after receiving similar threats...