Word: archbishop
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Philadelphia the presentation of the film resulted in a warning by the local archbishop against it, and pickets marched in protest around the two theatres featuring the "historical", picture...
That was one essential side of it-the contrast between the stability of the Throne and the confusion teeming around it. The other side was expressed in a quiet talk of great beauty and simplicity (see RELIGION). The old Archbishop of York stood before the couple and said: "Notwithstanding the splendor and national significance of this occasion, this service in all essentials is exactly the same as it would be for any cottager who might be married this afternoon in some small country church in a remote village in the dales...
...contrast cherished by the linotyper was made warm and living by the similarity expounded by the archbishop. At a coronation the people triumphantly proclaim their acceptance of authority, which is just the opposite of subservience to power. The great social victory of order, out of which freedom issues, had, in turn, its source in marriage, whether in Westminster Abbey or in a country church. Thus, what would otherwise have been merely a flash of gems, a blare of horns and a hash of gossip took on a meaning for Briton and alien by a fascinating interplay of dignity and earthiness...
After they had been pronounced man & wife, Princess Elizabeth and Prince Philip heard the wise and holy counsel of the venerable Archbishop of York. His words reached beyond Westminster Abbey to the whole world. Said...
Died. The Most Rev. James Hugh Ryan, 60, first archbishop of Omaha; of a heart attack; in Omaha. He was rector of Catholic University (1928-35), became bishop of Omaha in 1935, was elevated when the archdiocese was created...