Word: monsignors
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...have fled since 1945. Its frontier outposts: a dozen relief stations in Western Europe (mainly Austria), where the Hungarian Caritas (Catholic welfare organization), financed by U.S. Catholics, gives shelter to Hungarians of all sects who manage to slip across the border. The Vatican's man in charge: Monsignor Josef Zagon, 42, onetime chancellor of the diocese of Györ and follower of Cardinal Mindszenty, who escaped from Hungary just before the cardinal's arrest...
...made a direct offer to the Vatican last month to release imprisoned Archbishop Stepinac. Tito's condition: that Stepinac leave Yugoslavia the moment he is released. Last week the Vatican reported Tito's offer-and its own reply: no bargain. "The Holy See would be pleased if Monsignor Stepinac were freed," said the answer to Tito. "The Holy See is informed, however, that that Most Excellent Prelate, being convinced of his innocence, prefers to remain near his faithful." That seemed to hand Tito's awkward dilemma right back to Tito...
...Lombard village cobbler, young "Beppo" Sarto was as bright as he was poor, but he never lost his humility. Even when he was a fledgling country priest, his powerful sermons attracted attention beyond his own parish. He was raised to be a monsignor, then Bishop of Mantua, in 1893 Cardinal Patriarch of Venice. He made a point of giving away everything that he had. In his will he wrote: "I was born poor, I have lived poor, and I wish to die poor...
...Roman Catholic best known to most U.S. citizens is Monsignor Fulton J. Sheen. His annual broadcasts of Lenten sermons have long been among the most popular on the air, one of his books, Peace of Soul, was a notable bestseller in 1949, and the many conversions over which he has presided have included such well-known people as Columnist Heywood Broun, Communist Louis Budenz, Industrialist Henry Ford II and Author Clare Boothe Luce...
Brockhurst painted his subjects, including Monsignor Fulton J. Sheen, Mrs. William Hale Harkness and Manufacturer