Word: msgr
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Msgr, Alberto Gori, Roman Catholic archbishop of Jerusalem, telephoned organizers of the procession to say: "The weather is too bad for the procession. We must cancel. One of our worries is that nuns could be blown over the cliffs by this terrible wind...
Even some members of the hierarchy have come to accept the departure of their trusted servants with something resembling equanimity. Last month, when Msgr. James M. Murray left the priesthood after 28 years in order to marry, he explained to relatives that he "had entered the church by the front door and was leaving by the front door." Thereupon he mounted the pulpit of St. John the Evangelist Church in San Francisco at noon Mass one Sunday and told his congregation all about his decision. Archbishop Joseph McGucken even made a farewell statement of appreciation for his services...
...heeding the growing number of rebel priests who insist that Catholicism can transform society-and save its soul-only by embracing revolution, even a Marxist variety. "We expected revolutionary movement, but never anticipated that it would build up to such intensity at the very heart of the church," says Msgr. Joseph Gremillion, secretary of the Pontifical Commission for Justice and Peace. "We now find that Moscow Communists are farther to the right than many revolutionary Catholics...