Word: msgr
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...object to this. No one questions the right and obligation of religious leaders to counsel their congregations, but it is an abridgement of a fundamental freedom (as well as a misuse of their position) to attempt to enforce their opinions on the nation as a whole. Msgr. Thomas E. Little, Chairman of the Catholic Legion of Decency declared, for example, that he felt most Protestants and Jews should concur with the Legion's guidance in encouraging "better" motion pictures and discouraging "morally undesirable" ones...
...Roman Catholics, and non-Catholics as well, but many Vatican insiders are currently critical of him. Their complaint: his "very definite lack of prudence." First count against him: allowing himself to be photographed saying Mass in the U.S. legation close to an American flag. Second: assigning his aide, Msgr. Egon Turchanyi, to smuggle out of Hungary a message for U.S. Cardinal Spellman. Father Turchanyi-who was also in the legation photograph and clearly identifiable-was caught at the Austrian border and imprisoned by the Reds. Both the flag episode and the message, the Vatican fears, may strengthen the familiar Communist...
...Msgr. McGlinchey based his stand on religious principles, the action was both his privilege and duty. But there is no such excuse for Dr. Dennis Haley, Boston's Superintendent of School, who not only praised the ban, but that going steady "robs the youngster of one of the finer experiences of growing up--the friendship and companionship of as wide a circle of acquaintances of both sexes as possible." This argument was stated more succinctly by Harvard sociologist George C. Homans who said, "A man gets a much better education playing the field...
Four members of the Social Relations department attacked yesterday the ban on "going steady" which was imposed last week on students at St. Mary's High School in Lynn by its principal, Msgr. Joseph McGlinchey. The faculty members here disagreed on the merits of "going steady," however...
George C. Homans '32, professor of Sociology, affirmed that he dislikes "any official ban like this," although he disapproved "thoroughly" of the steady dating practice. He declined to guess whether "going steady" has a harmful effect on morals, as Msgr. McGlinchey contended, but felt "a man gets a much better education by playing the field...