Word: archbishop
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...called the Army & Navy Diocese. Its uncounted souls are all the Catholics in the armed forces; Catholic civil employes of the military; their families. Its priesthood: 517 Catholic chaplains, active and reserve. This diocese has no bishop all to itself; its last one was the late Patrick Cardinal Hayes, Archbishop of New York...
Last week in Vatican City, at the first consistory (meeting of cardinals) of his reign, Pope Pius XII appointed a new Army & Navy bishop. He chose his most trusted U. S. servant, Most Rev. Francis Joseph Spellman, present Archbishop of New York. To do most of the active work of the chaplaincy, the Holy Father created an auxiliary bishop: Rev. John Francis O'Hara, president of Notre Dame University...
...great tester of theologies. To consider and try to answer the hard questions Christians ask themselves in war, some Britons lately began The Christian News-Letter. Among them were the Archbishop of York, Lord David Cecil, Catholic Christopher Dawson, Anglo-Catholics T. S. Eliot and J. Middleton Murry, Detectifictioneer Dorothy Sayers, Theologians Nathaniel Micklem and Reinhold Niebuhr. Editor is Joseph Houldsworth Oldham, Presbyterian-turned-Anglican, leader in the slow-forming World Council of Churches...
...enters the war, Catholics should "give serious thought to the question of whether or not they should be conscientious objectors." So said Archbishop Francis Joseph Beckman of Dubuque, who helped Father Coughlin in his unsuccessful keep-the-embargo fight...
...national day of prayer, the Archbishop of Canterbury said: "The whole people of the United Kingdom, as they enter upon the terrible ordeal of war, may be able to join together as one company in committing the national life and cause to Almighty God."* Said Roman Catholic Canon Martin Hewlett: "They at home . . . should invoke the powerful aid of the Queen of Heaven to protect England, her dowry, in this time of crisis...