Shortly after his election last March, Pope Francis met with the top brass and other officials of the Vatican’s Secretariat of State. And as reported here, he shocked them by – among other things – ordering a temporary moratorium on honorary ecclesiastical titles for priests.This meant that, until further notice, no diocesan clergymen, except those in the service of the Holy See, were to be bumped up to any of the three honorary ranks that afford the title monsignor.The Vatican normally grants these honorifics at the request of the local bishop. And these past months those applications have been piling up, especially from the United States, where it had become all the fashion over the last decade or so for many bishops to routinely make a dozen or more priests monsignori