Word: archbishop
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Athenians there was one happy occasion last week. At Piraeus, the port of Athens, Archbishop Damaskinos said a blessing over a bargeload of flour (see cut). It was the first tangible evidence of the $17,000,000 worth of supplies sped to Greece under the U.S. aid program...
...long face or being dull was just what a lot of people in war-beleaguered Britain wanted. The BBC put Lewis on the air and for three years his short, plain-spoken broadcasts on what Christians believe made him, for his listeners, almost as synonymous with religion as the Archbishop of Canterbury. The R.A.F. even chose him as a kind of Christian-at-large to visit air bases and discuss theology...
...Episcopal Traveler Guy Emery Shipler, editor of the U.S.'s oldest religious journal, The Churchman, which frequently has hard words for Roman Catholics and soft ones for friends of Russia. Full of news and views after his Yugoslav tour, which included a visit to the prison cell of Archbishop Aloysius Stepinac, Dr. Shipler stated flatly that he found no evidence of suppression of religious activity there.* Still, he "doubted very much" that Yugoslav clergymen could safely attack the Government from the pulpit...
Systematic & Sinister? That was too much for the Most Rev. Richard J. Cushing, Roman Catholic Archbishop of Boston. Said he: "I feel bound . . . publicly to denounce the systematic and sinister anti-Catholicism of organized groups like the committee of ministers which last week returned to this country from Yugoslavia. . . . The damage is being done by men who-may God forgive them-are introduced as 'Reverend.' . . . We live in evil times when things can happen like the sell-out to Tito of the eight Protestant clergymen who were hand-picked to defend Tito's war on religion...
That "handpicked" remark, retorted Dr. Shipler, was untrue. Furthermore, he found the Archbishop's whole statement "ill-tempered." Said Dr. Shipler: "If the Roman Catholic Church in America wishes to be free from criticism, let it become only a church and not a political state. . . . Increasing numbers are determined to fight the type of political clericalism which has been so disastrous to other countries...