Word: archbishop
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Michael, Cardinal von Faulhaber, 73, Archbishop of Munich, still has a tongue in his head. The fact that he is not silenced says a lot about Cardinal von Faulhaber; it also tells something about Nazi Germany...
...Archbishop of Canterbury, Dr. William Temple, does not let grass grow under his feet. His very first speech after his enthronement was a call to a unified Christendom ("The world has been much more conscious of the Church's divisions than of its unity in the fundamental principles of the Gospel. This is our fault and we ought to be bitterly ashamed of it."); a ringing redefinition of democracy ("The test of democracy is not whether the majority prevails but whether the minority is tolerated."); and a plea for social reform, culminating in a proposal that all corporations should...
...Archbishop of York, Dr. Cyril Garbett, is known as "The Hiking Bishop," from his rooted custom of footsloggirig from parish to parish with staff and cap in hand. He too took a strong stand for social reform last week. Said he: "When peace comes and war weariness sets in we may slip back into the old ways. If that happens there would follow such widespread and angry discontent that revolution might follow. . . . Service for all...is rapidly being substituted for private interests and personal gain...
...Father Coughlin had suddenly chosen to submit could only be surmised. Said Detroit's Archbishop Edward Francis Mooney, no patron of Coughlin's: "My understanding with him is sufficiently broad and firm to exclude effectively the recurrence of any such unpleasant situation...
Another New York church received a major relic last week when Archbishop Francis J. Spellman presented to the parish church of St. Helena in The Bronx a piece of the True Cross miraculously discovered on Calvary on May 3, A.D. 326, by St. Helena, mother of Constantine the Great, the first Christian emperor of Rome. Said the Archbishop: "This . ... relic of the True Cross [is] one of the largest pieces outside St. Peter's in Rome and the Church of St. John of the Cross in Jerusalem. It was verified as a true relic 126 years ago in Rome...