Word: prefectly
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...picture comes to an end, Humphrey Bogart and prefect of police Rains stand facing each other, a Nazi major dead at Bogie's feet. But this time, Rains doesn't turn to his men and say "round up the usual suspects." Four seconds worth of frames had been cut and the film respliced to repair damage, the management explained...
...Sacred Congregation of Seminaries and Universities issued an instruction that would require Catholic universities to get clearance from Rome before awarding honorary degrees. The author of the decree is believed to be Archbishop Dino Staffa, who is the chief assistant to Giuseppe Cardinal Pizzardo, the congregation's conservative prefect...
Everything has been ordained by tradition and now you want to change it all, complained Vatican Prefect of Sacred Ceremonies Archbishop Enrico Dante. The prelates of the Second Vatican Council were indeed talking of change, and change in the basic area of the church's public worship...
...necessary reform efforts are constantly blocked by a Vatican Curia that is insulated from the problems of non-Italian Catholics. The liberals also want to play down the hierarchical, juridical concept of the church, under which, says one French archbishop, "the bishop is reputed to be a sort of prefect, priests functionaries, sacraments residues of magic rites, religion a group of laws to which one suits himself because of a feeling of exterior discipline and from which one escapes without understanding their true value, as happens with the laws of the state...
...protested that he needlessly endangers his life by mingling with the crowds on official tours. Answered De Gaulle: "Keep in mind one thing, sir. De Gaulle interests me only as a historic personage." While reading him the order of the day during one of his provincial tours, a local prefect got no farther than "11 o'clock-Mass." "Ah," interrupted the President, "Mass is my favorite ceremony!" Dreamily, De Gaulle explained: "Yes, church is the only place where, when someone addresses me, I don't have to answer...