Word: archbishop
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Many Christians are convinced that the finest Christian leader thus far produced by the 20th Century was William Temple, Archbishop of Canterbury when he died in 1944. His faith, courage, wisdom, humor, leadership, humility-and holiness-made him the rare combination of a prelate who was also a prophet. Those who knew Temple will never forget him. For those who did not know him, there is now a fine full-length portrait: Dean F. A. Iremonger's official biography, William Temple (Oxford University Press; 663 pages; 25 shillings...
...conflicting views. Temple was presiding, with his usual unruffled skill. "How will this do?" he asked, and read a few scribbled sentences. There was an awed silence, broken by two voices, one conveying the grave congratulations of a European theologian and the other from a U.S. delegate who said "Archbishop, you tickle me pink...
...faculties taxed Laval's space. Enrollment (1,294 in 1936) jumped last year to more than 3,000 full-time students. But there was no room for expansion in the tight little blocks below Quebec's Citadel. Quebec's Archbishop Maurice Roy, World War II army chaplain, agreed that Laval would have to be remade. Said he: "The university . . . must addpt itself to the continual progress of science and technology...
...roughhoused like any schoolbound boys that morning all over the U.S. But when the driver stopped before a gleaming, modernistic school building, they got off and went in as quietly as though they were entering church. In a sense, they were. It was the new $4,200,000 Archbishop Stepinac High School, the nation's best equipped Roman Catholic diocesan school...
...Catholicism's most influential leader, wove into his speech every overtone of the Catholic parochial system. In his first sentence he called the school "the full embodiment of the great and generous spirit that is America." Then he praised the prelate for whom he had named it, Archbishop Aloysius Stepinac* of Yugoslavia, railroaded to jail by Tito in 1946, as "the victim of godless Communism and a martyr to the ideals that Americans revere and cherish. He is the symbol of Peter and Paul and all the apostles and martyrs ... He also reincarnates the symbol of the fathers...