Word: msgr
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Editor of Sin is 47-year-old Msgr. Pietro Palazzini, the Vatican's secretary of the Sacred Congregation of Council and author of numerous books, including a three-volume Principles of Moral Theology. His new book consists of 37 articles on man's sinful behavior, written by 36 authors (he contributed two). Most of the sinning in the book runs the familiar gamut from adultery to zealotry, but the special sins of the modern world make earthier reading. Moviemakers, writes the Rev. Salvatore Casals, should be careful to distinguish between evil and sin, and to depict...
...Msgr. Joseph A. McCaffrey's denunciation of "coddlers" and "do-gooders" as the chief contributing factors to New York's juvenile crimes [Sept. 14] seems to ignore completely the basic source of trouble. The Roman Catholic Church must accept its fair share of the responsibility. As long as the church insists on its adherents bringing children into the world regardless of their ability or prospects of providing them with decent homes, so long shall we require "more jails" to meet "force with force...
...days of public hearings in Washington last week, farm employment groups battered his plan (earlier 29 farm-state Congressmen, mostly Southern Democrats, had branded the proposal "illegal, immoral and impracticall"). Alone among farm organizations, the National Farmers' Union came to Mitchell's aid, and the Very Rev. Msgr. George G. Higgins, of the"National Catholic Welfare Conference, praised Mitchell for "the greatest kind of courage...
André Jullien, 76, born near Lyon, France, taught canon law at the seminary there before becoming a judge of the Rota. Since 1944, hardworking, modest Msgr. Jullien has been dean of the Rota...
Last week Msgr. Henri Alexandre Chappoulie, bishop of Angers, came out solidly for funerary equality: henceforth his diocese (about 120 miles south of Paris) will permit only one class of funeral. (Exception: if the dead held an important place in the community, in which case "more priests or a bigger choir than usual" might be in order.) Specifications for the bishop's standard funeral will correspond to the undertakers' Class 4-two priests, one cantor, two choirboys, no deacon or archdeacon, no draperies or crape, six candles on the altar and eight at the catafalque. The church...