Word: archbishop
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...stay in Paris, where the left-wing Commune soon seized power. The Government and the Commune executed between them more than 40,000 people. Among the Commune's victims were two hapless generals, Claude-Martin Lecomte and Clément Thomas, shot as "enemies of the people"; Archbishop Darboy of Paris and Curé Deguerry of the Madeleine, with four Jesuit fathers; batches of right-wing hostages (see cuts). In 1871 the Germans who occupied France were interested spectators. This year they may even have an interest in encouraging disorder and violence...
Matthew Parker was a pious, scholarly divine who took unto himself a spouse in 1547, when it was still illegal for clergymen of the Church of England to marry.* In 1560, as Queen Elizabeth's Archbishop of Canterbury, Matthew Parker was set to draw up a list of marriage prohibitions. The resultant Table of Kindred and Affinity, Wherein Whosoever Are Related are Forbidden in Scripture and Our Laws to Marry Together stands prominently in every Anglican church in England to this...
Since 1907, successive Acts of Parliament have cut Archbishop Parker's prohibitions from 30 to 20. First to fall was No. 17, ended by the Deceased Wife's Sister Marriage Act. But the Church of England held fast, continued to frown on a woman who married her brother's daughter's husband or a man who married his wife's father's sister. Though these three marriages and seven others of their ilk are now legally permissible in England, many a clergyman has refused to perform them, has solemnly shown the Parker table...
Summoned before a London tribunal, Conscientious Objector Frederick Stephen Temple, nephew of the Archbishop of York, was exempted from combat service on religious grounds. Quaker Temple, an ambulance driver in Norway and Finland, desired to remain with his unit for the duration of World...
...Gravest present rift between a bishop and his dean is that of the Archbishop of Canterbury, Primate of All England, and the Very Rev. Hewlett Johnson, "Red Dean" of Canterbury, ardent Communist sympathizer. Like other deans, Dr. Johnson's main job is the care of his cathedral and its services. The Archbishop, who mortally hates & fears Communism, enters Canterbury Cathedral warily and as seldom as possible, last March got support from the cathedral chapter when five resident canons denounced the Dean's politics, dissociated themselves from...