Word: archbishop
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Virtually unanimous sponsors of this program are the Archbishop of York, 23 of the Church's 98 bishops (including top-ranking London and Durham), 14 deans and a total of some 200 other churchmen. All of them seemingly remembered that the great ages of Christianity have come when the Church took the lead in historic movements, which were as much economic and social as religious, like the Crusades and the Reformation. All of them were determined that the Church should assume just such a leadership in post-war reconstruction. And all of them were determined that that leadership should...
...around them, they gathered day after day in the paralyzing cold of unheated Malvern College to hear speaker after speaker denounce present-day failure to identify Christianity with any great cause except "nosing out fornication." And then without a single dissenting voice they adopted a resolution presented by the Archbishop himself. Chief planks...
England's Established Church has little to do with nonconformists on the one side, Roman Catholics on the other. But last week the Church of England's two primates, the Archbishops of Canterbury and York, made history by jointly signing a letter to the London Times with Arthur Cardinal Kinsley, Roman Catholic Archbishop of Westminster, and Dr. Walter H. Armstrong, Joint Secretary of the Federal Council of the Free Churches. Winston Churchill has avoided any statement of war aims, so the churchmen set up "five standards" as a post-war plan to guide statesmen. Like the Sermon...
...month later Catholicism also began to strike back, led by rawboned, outspoken Michael, Cardinal von Faulhaber, Archbishop of Munich. In a series of Advent sermons that packed St. Michael's Church he condemned the false choice that the Nazis had tried to place before Catholics-the choice between "Germanism" and disloyalty. His Eminence thundered: "Let us not forget that we were saved not by German blood but by the blood of Christ!'' Cardinal von Faulhaber narrowly missed a Nazi bullet in 1934. In 1938 a Nazi mob smashed the windows of his palace...
Birthdays. Jean Sibelius, great Finnish composer, his 75th. Field Marshal August von Mackensen, German hero of World War I, his gist. William Cardinal O'Connell, Archbishop of Boston, denouncing those who would have America "become a sort of tail end of a foreign empire," his Sist. Tom Mooney, labor saint, his 58th, at St. Luke's hospital, San Francisco, where in ten months he has undergone three abdominal operations, four transfusions. William Constant Wheeler, the nation's only authentic son of the Revolution, at his South Woodbury, Vt. farmhouse, his 93rd. His father, who volunteered under Washington...