Word: archbishop
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...admit to the accusation of strikebreaker, said the Cardinal Archbishop of New York, Francis J. Spellman, "and I am proud of it. If stopping a strike like this isn't a thing of honor, then I don't know what honor is." For three days last week, Cardinal Spellman walked about the 550-acre expanse of crowded Calvary Cemetery in New York City's Queens supervising his corps of 100 amateur gravediggers. All of them were young students for the priesthood, recruits from St. Joseph's Seminary in Yonkers, N.Y. Cardinal Spellman's troubles...
...pattern of the Protestants' lot has changed somewhat, according to Reporter Bigart, since the outbreaks of popular violence against them more than a year ago. In a 1947 pastoral letter, writes Bigart, Pedro Cardinal Segura y Saenz, Archbishop of Seville, measured Protestantism against "atheistic and Soviet Communism" as being among "other grave dangers which perhaps are more to be feared because they inspire less horror." The van-dalistic raids on Protestant churches that followed simmered down last year, when the Spanish government began to clamp down more tightly than ever on Protestant activities...
...orthodox clergy. Nevertheless, the local government decided to exhibit the statue last month at the Bolivarian Eucharistic Congress in Cali. There clerical higher-ups agreed that it was good church art-except for the absence of the wounds. After Molina added them, the statue was blessed by the Archbishop of Cartagena...
...Most Rev. Geoffrey F. Fisher, Archbishop of Canterbury, 61, father of six, conceded that large families had "problems" nowadays-but he was still in favor of them. "I find it very difficult to attach the word 'family' to a family of one. It is not easy to attach it to a family of two; but I begin to feel happier when it is a family of three...
...Father Patrick J. Holloran, then president of St. Louis University, opened his school to Negroes; in 1947 Hoosier-bred Archbishop Joseph E. Ritter opened all parochial schools in his archdiocese to Negro children, silenced objections by threatening excommunication to malcontents (TIME, Sept. 29, 1947). Two St. Louis Roman Catholic colleges for women have Negro students...