Word: archbishop
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...them was Religion's undoubted Man of the Year, the Most Rev. William Temple, the Archbishop of York. At Malvern, and recently again at another gathering of British churchmen (see p. 41), he took the lead in attempting to set up better standards for the world to follow when slaughter is done. When his work is complete-if it is as farsighted as it is good-willed-he may do more to influence the future of the world than all the leaders of state. That fulfillment, however, is yet to come...
...Archbishop Francis Joseph Spellman handed New York City's Red Cross $1,000 for the war fund, disclosed that he had contributed one pint of ecclesiastical blood for the blood bank...
...kind of concordat he long wanted-which the Vatican long refused to grant him-and last month picked the new Primate of Spain, his relationship with the Vatican has been much more cordial. A further indication of this came last week when Rome heard reports that the new Primate, Archbishop Enrique Pla y Daniel of Toledo, would be made a cardinal before the year's end. If so, his will be the first red hat Pope Pius XII has bestowed...
...same Rome rumors held that several Italian prelates and one other non-Italian, New York's Archbishop Francis J. Spellman, would soon be raised to the College of Cardinals. There are 18 vacancies, but the present Pope has not elevated anyone, because of war conditions "which do not permit freedom of selection in some countries." Reason advanced for the exception in favor of Spain: "the need for a cardinal as head of the Spanish ecclesiastical hierarchy at this difficult moment...
...With Germany we step many degrees downward and reach the lowest possible depths," said Joseph Ernest Cardinal van Roey, Archbishop of Malines and successor to Belgium's late great Cardinal Mercier, in a speech at Wavre-Notre Dame. "We have a duty of conscience to combat and to strive for the defeat of these dangers. . . . Reason and good sense both direct us towards confidence, towards resistance...