Word: msgr
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...presbyter, was elected Pope on March 2-3, 752, but two days later, before he could be crowned, died of apoplexy. His fierce face still stares down at worshipers in the central nave of Rome's St. Paul's Basilica, but the current Yearbook's compiler, Msgr. Angelo Lanzoni, decided that papal coronation should be the criterion...
...Such as Britain's Revised Version (1885), the U.S. Revised Standard Version (1952), and one-man translation of the New Testament by James Moffatt (1913), Edgar J. Goodspeed (1923), Msgr. Ronald Knox (1944) and John B. Phillips...
Then the phone began to ring. Cries of "dictatorship," questions about enforcement, shrieks of fiscal pain descended upon the pastor's head. Soon the vicar general of the Newark archdiocese, Msgr. James A. Hughes, came to the rescue...
Father Weigand's plan had been misinterpreted, he said; there was no way of enforcing the giving of a tithe, no declaration of income would be required, no punishment would be exacted of those who failed to comply. Said Msgr. Hughes: "I don't like this business of charging that we're totalitarian." Father Weigand contributed to the ambiguous blur by announcing that if tithing was "not optional," it was not compulsory, either. Anyway, the "carnival atmosphere" will be ended at St. Joseph's for 1961, at least. A single exception: the Saturday night bingo games...
...Human Good. Murray gave his polemical proclivities a workout in the early '50s with a scholarly drumfire of debate in the pages of the monthly American Ecclesiastical Review with its editor, Redemptorist Father Francis J. Connell, and Msgr. Joseph Clifford Fenton, professor of dogma at the Catholic University of America. The subject at issue: Murray's contention that the Vatican should give its formal blessing to the U.S. pluralist system as a new, permanent and viable kind of relationship between religion and government. The learned, footnote-stippled discussion ended when Murray was advised by his order that henceforth...