Word: archbishop
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...week's news of Christian confusion: ¶ In Genoa the Cardinal-Archbishop of Genoa, Pietro Boetto, got mad. Objecting to the shelling of Genoa by British warships, he spoke for God Almighty as follows: "The Lord, even in the sight of the innocent victims, will raise His merciful hand above us and will concede a complete triumph to our beloved country." > At the National Republican Club's Lincoln Day dinner, Episcopal Bishop William T. Manning of New York carefully instructed God Almighty as follows: "O God our Father . . . grant that we may give our utmost aid to Great...
...Germany, Adolf Cardinal Bertram, Archbishop of Breslau and dean of the German hierarchy, formally protested to Hitler because the Nazis ruled that services could not be held anywhere in Germany before 10 a.m. after nights with British air raids-a rule which keeps many German Catholics from attending mass. > Baptists in the 'Baltic area of the U. S. S. R. (until last year Latvia, Lithuania and Estonia) were bravely enduring new active persecution by the Soviet Government...
...Churches, announced that leading churchmen from North and South America would gather in Toronto next June "to consider the task of the Church in the present world crisis . . . with special reference to the kind of world order that will follow the present struggle." The Most Rev. William Temple, Archbishop of York, is also likely to be at Toronto. Last month he set a keynote for it by convoking the Malvern Conference in England (TIME, Jan. 20), which drew up a sweeping plan for postwar society...
...Belgium Joseph Ernest Cardinal van Roey, Archbishop of Malines, and five other bishops issued a pastoral letter strikingly parallel to the pro-Allied pastorals of the late great Cardinal Mercier which kept up the morale of occupied Belgium during World War I. Angry Nazis promptly closed every Belgian church for three days but the pastoral circulated regardless. In it the six prelates recognized the Nazis only "as a de facto power," proclaimed that "the Belgian fatherland continues to exist," urged "national solidarity" and "moral unity," closed with an appeal to remember Armistice Day and to pray for all Belgians fallen...
...Canada Rodrigue Cardinal Villeneuve, Archbishop of Quebec, led 4,700,000 Catholics (42% of Canada's population) in a day of prayer for "victory"-in definite contrast to earlier prayers which were merely for "peace." The action offered even more concrete encouragement to the British, for Cardinal Villeneuve, probably the most influential French Canadian, by himself celebrating a votive High Mass for victory in Montreal's famed old Notre Dame Church and afterwards reviewing a parade of French-Canadian troops, gave the Church's full blessing to Britain's and Canada's war. Other Canadians...