Word: archbishop
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Paradox of the debate: Anglo-Soviet rapprochement was vigorously though un successfully championed by the Most Reverend Cosmo Gordon Lang, Archbishop of Canterbury, Primate of All England, who thundered: "I favor the creation of some direct channel through which we may protest the Soviet oppression of ministers of religion...
...realize the power of Premier Taschereau. The Hon. Louis Alexandré Taschereau is of a family superpotent in Quebec politics. His father, the Hon. Jean Thomas Taschereau, was a judge of the supreme court. Still more important was his uncle, the late great Elzear Alexandré Taschereau, dour-faced Archbishop of Quebec, first Canadian Cardinal, a founder of Laval University and for over 50 years an immense power in the life of the province. Premier Louis, cardinal's nephew, was destined from the first for a public career. Premier since 1920, he it was who framed the widely discussed, widely imitated...
Finally, with another swarming week-end at hand, William Henry Cardinal O'Connell, Archbishop of Boston, twice a visitor to the grave, decided to call a halt. Announced his secretary, Monsignor Francis A. Burke: "The situation at the cemetery in Maiden has become such that an investigation is being made into the whole question which has developed there during the past month." Added Monsignor Burke: The gates of the cemetery would remain closed except for funerals until further notice. Iron workers under the direction of the Cardinal's brother Edward, who is superintendent of the cemetery, fixed stout extra braces...
...truly a breathtaking rise. From the quiet school, Pope Pius XI had jumped Father Verdier over the heads of innumerable Bishops, made him Archbishop of Paris. Soon he was to be hatted a Prince of the Church and put in charge of the Cathedral of Notre-Dame...
Four other Cardinals were named by Pope Pius XI last week to fill some of the 13 vacancies in the Sacred College: Mgr. Emanuel Gonzales Cerejeira, to be Patriarch of Lisbon; Mgr. Luigi Lavitrano, to be Archbishop of Palermo; Mgr. Carlo Minoretti, to be Archbishop of Genoa; Mgr. Joseph MacCrory to be Primate of Ireland...