Word: archbishop
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...conference to luncheon to conference, preceded by screaming motorcycles bearing U. S. and British flags, crossed the Hudson to New Jersey, received 100 presents (including one package, thought to contain a bomb, which turned out to be a big metal statue of Winston Churchill, thumbs up), conferred with one archbishop, three bishops and several clergymen. He opened a clubroom for British seamen, roared with them "Are we downhearted? No!" with thumbs up, for the benefit of cameramen...
...most socially conscious New Dealer in the Roman Catholic hierarchy was raised to archiepiscopal dignity last week in the person of sandy-haired, twinkling-eyed Most Rev. Robert Emmet Lucey. With all the pomp and circumstance of his church's ritual, he was enthroned as Archbishop of San Antonio. The Most Rev. Amleto Giovanni Cicognani, Pope Pius XII's Apostolic Delegate to the U. S., himself installed him. For the dozens of bishops and archbishops, the scores of red-robed monsignori, the hundreds of priests and nuns, the thousands of lay folk who jammed San Fernando Cathedral...
...spiritual, cultural and industrial impossibility. To profess neutrality in the face of international crime is to deny the existence of a moral order. Unprovoked aggression in starting a war and barbaric savagery in conducting it constitute murder and injustice. These do not admit of neutrality." Young for an archbishop (he was 50 last fortnight), Emmet Lucey's appointment is another earnest of the present Pope's desire to give U. S. Catholicism vigorous leaders. Significantly, his seminary classmate in Rome and close friend is the U. S. prelate who seems destined to become the Cardinal Gibbons of this...
...distinguished an assembly as Malvern, which was convened by the Archbishop of York and drew 23 bishops, the C. L. I. D.'s meeting was nonetheless an earnest and effective one. Presiding Bishop Henry St. George Tucker, a C. L. I. D. member, could not come; with 20 other Bishops he was in Chicago, to consecrate the Rev. Wallace Edmonds Conkling as Chicago's seventh Episcopal bishop.* But four bishops and a raft of other prominent churchmen were there. In two days, some 450 delegates resolved that: "We subscribe to the Malvern Resolutions in spirit, also in letter...
...Congregational and other church social-action groups), many another U. S. church organization, and-most important of all-the conference of leading churchmen of the Western Hemisphere summoned by the World Council of Churches to meet in Toronto this June. As special guest the Toronto Conference is expecting the Archbishop of York, with his help plans to draw up a worldwide plan for post-war society. Keynote for its deliberations was struck last week by the C. L. I. D.'s president, retired Bishop Edward Lambe Parsons of California...