Word: archbishop
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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When William Temple as Archbishop of Canterbury placed the rank and in fluence of his exalted office behind the forces of economic and social reform (see p. 59} that was a final challenge to this onetime leader of the House of Lords and champion of the Oxford Group. While younger Tories felt that now was the time for them to be comparatively silent, blue-blooded, hearty Lord Salisbury took issue. In a booklet issued last week, Post war Conservative Policy, he accused those who "question the social and political standards, even in our own country," of being "betrayed into...
...said doughty, blue-eyed Joseph Cardinal MacRory, Roman Catholic Archbishop of Armagh and Primate of All Ireland, when he visited the U.S. in 1935. Last week the 81-year-old Cardinal addressed Americans in a different fashion. He found it "exceedingly hard to be patient," he complained, when he thought of "my own corner of my country overrun by British and U.S. soldiers against the will of the nation." By "my own corner" the Cardinal meant 66% Protestant Ulster, where he was born, lives...
...Formed a unique Council of Christians and Jews whose joint presidents are Britain's five top-ranking ecclesiastics-the Archbishop of Canterbury (Anglican), the Moderator of the Church of Scotland (Presbyterian), the Moderator of the Free Church Federal Council (Nonconformist), Arthur Cardinal Kinsley (Roman Catholic Primate of England), and Chief Rabbi Joseph Herman Hertz of the British Empire. Only remotely similar organization is America's National Conference of Christians and Jews-and it has no such official church backing, especially among Catholics...
Clearest note as to what such cooperation means was struck by Canterbury at the inaugural service of the British Council of Churches. The Archbishop took his text from Exodus (And Jehovah said unto Moses, Wherefore criest thou unto me? Speak unto the children of Israel, that they go forward...
...proposals brought a spate of angry letters to the Times. The gist: "There is surely enough for the church to do within its own accepted field." One defender of the Archbishop popped up with a retort from the late G. A. ("Woodbine Willie") Studdert-Kennedy, best-loved British padre of World War I: "Nobody worries about Christ so long as He can be kept shut up in churches . . . but there is always trouble...