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• The film is a picaresque ramble through a half-real Rome in which gridlocked cars are turned into living spaces; cardinals, monsignors and fawning aristocrats preside over Vatican fashion shows; and the district of Trastevere becomes a huge fairground teeming with local characters, guitar-strumming hippies, uniformed carabinieri. Finding Fellini
• After numerous attempts to get a comment from Archbishop Gilbert, Newsday instead caught up late last evening with Monsignor Cuthbert Alexander on a retreat at the private ranch in Mayaro of the late Jack Ramoutarsingh, who was a devout Catholic. Newsday.co.tt
• Why a Saint?" by Monsignor Slawomir Oder, the Vatican "postulator" in charge of the canonization process, says the Polish-born Pope performed self flagellation as a bishop in Krakow and continued to do so in the Vatican after being elected Pope in 1978. FOXNews.com
• But on Wednesday the Vatican's top official for dealing with sexual abuse of minors, Monsignor Charles Scicluna, said hiding behind a culture of "omerta" - the Italian word for the Mafia's code of silence - would be deadly for the Church. Yahoo! News: Business - Opinion
• Monsignor Rolfe would have no hope of claiming an embargo on it this time. GRACE
• Nevertheless, Bertram looked a little more after his friend, and disturbing the monsignore, who was at breakfast with Lothair one morning, Bertram obstinately outstayed the priest, and then said: "I tell you what, old fellow, you are rather hippish; I wish you were in the House of Commons. Lothair
• The note of unchangeability loomed above all, which is why early rumblings about Mass in ‘the vernacular’ were rudely dismissed by every monsignor to whom I ever handed cruets.
• While this is a relatively minor detail, I was also pleased to see the monsignor is shown wearing a proper amice in some of the images. Photos from the Heralds of the Gospel
• Monsignor Bassano Staffieri, retired bishop of La Spezia in Liguria, said that of the 500 girls born in the city this year, “not one was registered or baptised with the name Maria”. The Church Around the Corner: Offbeat religion stories
• On the entrance of His Holiness into the [Pauline] chapel, illuminated by 567 wax candles, the Verbum Caro is sung, and on arriving at the altar the Pope delivers the chalice containing the Sacrament to the Cardinal deacon who deposits it in the sepulchre where it is incensed by the Pope; Monsignor Sacrista locks the sepulchre and delivers the key to the Cardinal Penitentiary who is to officiate on the following day. Rare Images of Holy Thursday with Pius XI in the Sistine Chapel and a Description of the Papal Ceremonies of those Times