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To: ninenot

"But "reverend" is a Prot term."

For some reason, I thought "Rt. Rev." (Right Reverend) was a proper formal address for a priest.


400 posted on 06/28/2005 6:57:55 AM PDT by MeanWestTexan
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To: MeanWestTexan

I think if you're addressing a letter to a priest, you use "Reverend," and "Right Reverend" for a monsignor. I've never heard either used in speaking to or about a priest. (Doesn't mean it's not another new-fangled innovation; I also recall when the priest who said a Mass was the celebrant, not the presider.)


409 posted on 06/28/2005 7:12:34 AM PDT by maryz
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To: MeanWestTexan

It may be a regional thing.

In Milwaukee, we were taught(!!!) to avoid the use of the term "reverend" when speaking of priests, who were to be called "Father."

The idea was to distinguish between the Prot 'reverends' and the Catholic 'Fathers.'


413 posted on 06/28/2005 7:16:02 AM PDT by ninenot (Minister of Membership, Tomas Torquemada Gentlemen's Club)
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