Word: archbishop
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...shows in Detroit and Manhattan gave him a U.S. reputation. But things have not always gone well with him at home. He painted the Via Sacra on the walls of a modern church near Belo Horizonte, which Architect Oscar Niemeyer, friend and fellow Communist, designed. The archbishop refused to consecrate the church (TIME, May 13, 1946). Says Portinari: "The priests don't like my way of expressing, sacred things. They want Virgins that look like Ingrid Bergman and Christs like Robert Taylor. For me, a saint is a saint and not a movie actor...
...provincial legislature. And the Catholic Church had dropped its hostility toward him, which had arisen from his opportunist pre-election alliance with the Communists last January. His daughter would be married this week in the Church of the Convent of Mount Carmel by São Paulo's Archbishop, Carlo Carmelo, Cardinal de Vasconcellos Motta...
...NEVER PUT TO ME . . . ARE AS FOLLOWS: 1) I KNOW LITTLE ABOUT THE PRESENT GOVERNMENT OF POLAND BUT ASSUME THAT ITS POLICIES ARE LARGELY THOSE OF MOSCOW INASMUCH AS ITS DELEGATE IN THE U.N. CUSTOMARILY VOTES IN ACCORDANCE WITH THE SOVIET UNION DELEGATE. 2) I REGARDED THE TRIAL OF ARCHBISHOP STEPINAC AS RELIGIOUS PERSECUTION AND DID MY BEST TO OBTAIN A PANEL OF AMERICAN LAWYERS TO HELP IN HIS DEFENSE. 3) I REGARD THE PRESENT GOVERNMENT OF GREECE AS UNDEMOCRATIC IN CHARACTER. THAT HAS NOTHING TO DO WITH MY BELIEFS AS A CATHOLIC. 4) I, OF COURSE, ACCEPT THE PAPAL...
Freedom at a Price. If the Church and Parliament cannot agree on such a compromise, wrote the Archbishop, "then Disestablishment and Disendowment will be unavoidable." Disestablishment would mean the end of the formal relationship of Church & State which began when Henry VIII repudiated papal authority, and the Convocation of 1534 resolved that the Pope had no more divine jurisdiction in England than "any other foreign bishop...
York tempered his pronouncement with a word or two of archepiscopal caution. For one thing, confiscation of State endowments would deal the Church a grave financial blow. Far worse, Disestablishment "would be regarded, however illegitimately, as the national repudiation of religion." Further, the Archbishop cited what Poet-Essayist T. S. Eliot wrote in The Idea of a Christian Society: "The very act of disestablishment separates [a church] more definitely and irrevocably from the life of the nation than if it had never been established...