Editor: the following excerpt is from the NCRegister.com post on December 7
William Wilson, a member of President Ronald Reagan’s “kitchen cabinet” and the first U.S. ambassador to the Vatican, died early Saturday at the age of 95.
The Carmel Valley, Calif., oil businessman and rancher met the actor Reagan at a dinner party in the early 1960s. Wilson was a member of the circle of wealthy advisers who persuaded Reagan to run for California governor in 1966 and guided his political campaigns.
Wilson, a Catholic convert, was named as personal envoy to the Vatican by Reagan in 1981. At the time, an anti-papist law from 1867 prohibited the U.S. from establishing formal ties with the Vatican. Wilson assumed full status as an ambassador only after the anti-Catholic law was repealed in 1984.
Based on his admiration for Pope John Paul II and their shared commitment to eradicating communism in Eastern Europe, Reagan aimed to restore the United States’ diplomatic ties. In 1984 the U.S. re-established official relations, joining 107 other nations that recognized the Vatican as a sovereign body and the pope as an international statesman. Every president since Reagan has appointed an ambassador to the Vatican….
You can find an interview with Wilson at the Thomas Aquinas College website. He had served on the college’s board of governors.
Tullio Andreatta
Monsignor Tullio Andreatta, the first chaplain to the Latin Mass community in San Diego, died Tuesday, December 1 at the age of 95.
Funeral services will be held at the Immaculata church (University of San Diego) on Saturday, December 12; rosary at 9:45 a.m., solemn requiem Mass at 10 a.m.
Monsignor immigrated from Italy to the U.S. in 1939 and served 10 years on the East Coast. In 1949, he wrote Bishop Charles Buddy requesting to move to the San Diego diocese. He served in five parishes from Descanso (San Diego County) to Lake Arrowhead (San Bernadino County – then part of the San Diego diocese).
After retiring in 1980, Monsignor Andreatta became confessor to Bishop Leo Maher, Bishop Buddy’s successor. It was Bishop Maher, knowing the older priest’s devotion to the Latin Mass, who granted him permission to say it publicly after Pope John Paul issued the 1984 indult allowing it. “Ours was the first public Latin Mass in this country, said Andreatta in a December, 1993 interview with the San Diego New Notes.
Within months of Bishop Robert Brom’s incardination as bishop of San Diego in 1990, he relieved Andreatta of his duties as chaplain of the local Tridentine Mass. The same year Andreatta was replaced as substitute chaplain at Mercy Hospital, where he had been helping since his 1980 retirement. “I don’t ask questions. A priest must be obedient to his bishop. When they tell you to go, you must go, like a soldier, “ he told News Notes in the 1993 story.
In the early 1990s Andreatta ministered to AIDS and cancer patients at the San Diego Hospice. “They had gotten my name from Mercy Hospital.”
“It’s kind of interesting he’s ministering to AIDS patients when it (homosexuality) is the kind of thing that’s so repugnant to someone old fashioned like him,” Mary Bell Grant (a Latin Mass attendee) said in the News Notes article. “It shows, I think, the deepness of his faith that he has a desire to help people who by their own sins are in such a situation.”
Posted: Tue Dec 08, 2009 1:27 pm Post subject: Re: Two Obituaries: Vatican Ambassador, Tridentine Mass Pion
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After retiring in 1980, Monsignor Andreatta became confessor to Bishop Leo Maher, Bishop Buddy’s successor. It was Bishop Maher, knowing the older priest’s devotion to the Latin Mass, who granted him permission to say it publicly after Pope John Paul issued the 1984 indult allowing it. “Ours was the first public Latin Mass in this country," said Andreatta in a December, 1993 interview with the San Diego New Notes.
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