Word: archbishop
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With these words the Church of England last week set at rest the souls of any of its communicants who were bothered about Britain's alliance with the U.S.S.R. They were written by the Most Rev. and Rt. Hon. Cosmo Gordon Lang, 76, Archbishop of Canterbury and Primate of All England. Cosmo Gordon Lang has often denounced the "anti-God atheism of Moscow" and he helped maneuver his King into abdicating rather than permit a divorced woman to sit on the throne of England. But Cosmo Cantuar is a shrewd politician. When compromise is expedient he does not flinch...
...first time ever, a Roman Catholic archbishop took to the radio last Sunday to denounce a fellow member of the U.S. Catholic hierarchy. It was another example of how strong feeling on the war is beginning to run, for the target of the broadcast was a nationwide radio speech made July 6 by Pope Pius XII's friend and former assistant at the Vatican, Bishop Joseph Patrick Hurley of St. Augustine...
Bishop Hurley proclaimed Naziism a worse enemy than Communism, clearly favored U.S. intervention. Last Sunday Archbishop Francis Joseph Beckman of Dubuque militantly took issue with him on both points...
...Archbishop Francis Joseph Spellman of New York announced a Mass for the British in St. Patrick's Cathedral June 4 (which happens to have been the birthday of King George III). This is the first Mass for Britain in the history of the great church dedicated to Ireland's patron saint. It indicates a meaningful shift in Irish-American Catholic sentiment...
...happy, for Franco and the Vatican are deadlocked over his demand for the same veto power on the investiture of bishops that the monarchy exercised under the 1851 Concordat. As a result, nearly half the sees are vacant, and Spain has had no primate since Isidore Goma y Tomas, Archbishop of Toledo, died last year...