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To: Aussie Dasher

I've noticed this recently - is it just the US Catholic Church that refers to their Cardibnsl in the style 'George Cardinal Spell'? Or am I confoosed?

...Australia's most senior Catholic cleric, Cardinal George Pell.

13 posted on 09/18/2006 6:09:31 PM PDT by Ready4Freddy (Sophomore dies in kiln explosion? Oh My God! I just talked to her last week...)

To: Ready4Freddy

Good typing there, dude!

Example just found at wiki - 2005 - Corrado Cardinal Bafile, Italian Catholic cardinal (b. 1903)

14 posted on 09/18/2006 6:12:15 PM PDT by Ready4Freddy (Sophomore dies in kiln explosion? Oh My God! I just talked to her last week...)

To: Ready4Freddy

No, it's not just the US - and you will find some Australian newspapers get it right and refer to His Eminence as George Cardinal Pell.

Australian newspapers are notorious for getting titles and honourifics wrong. The one that really annoys me is that Australian newspapers often refer to our last Chief of the Defence Force as 'Major-General Peter Cosgrove' - he's very popular and is quite often mentioned as a potential Governor-General so he's mentioned a fair bit.

He was a Major-General at the time he became well known in Australia - when he was given command of Australian troops in East Timor in 1999. But for some reason, Australian journalists couldn't seem to grasp that he stopped being a Major-General after that - he had two further promotions through Lieutenant-General to General - and the newspapers still constantly get it wrong. It's insulting that they don't take the care they should.

29 posted on 09/18/2006 6:45:41 PM PDT by naturalman1975 ("America was under attack. Australia was immediately there to help." - John Winston Howard)

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