Word: archbishop
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Last week an answer came from a high quarter: England's second-ranking prelate, the Most Rev. and Rt. Hon. Cyril Forster Garbett, Archbishop of York. Wrote the 72-year-old Archbishop in his new book, The Claims of the Church of England: There is at present a "tendency towards totalitarianism in the State. The State increasingly exercises control over every department of the life of the community. It is not likely that the Church will escape from this movement. Through the appointment of bishops, deans and through the patronage of many benefices, it would be possible...
...Archbishop conceded that "at the moment, Parliament has no desire to exercise active control over the Church"; but until it begins making efforts to extricate itself from the Government's centuries-old embrace, he said, "the Church is drifting towards disaster...
...ecclesiastical firmament of Canada last week. In Ottawa, the Apostolic Delegate announced that the Most Rev. Maurice Roy, Bishop of Three Rivers and the youngest Roman Catholic prelate in the Dominion, had been named by the Pope to head the Dominion's oldest diocese, as eleventh Archbishop of Quebec. He will succeed the late Rodrigue Cardinal Villeneuve...
When he is enthroned, 42-year-old Bishop Roy will return to the city of his birth, where his father is a judge and good friend of Premier Maurice Duplessis. The Archbishop-designate has another tie with the Quebec Nationalist leader: Duplessis is a resident of his present diocese, Three Rivers...
Toughest questions in the test: What public position have you taken about 1) the present Government of Poland; 2) the trial of Archbishop Stepinac; 3) the present Government of Greece; 4) the Vatican v. Moscow? Would you be willing to be quoted publicly as supporting this statement (from Pope Pius XI's Encyclical on Atheistic Communism): "Communism is intrinsically wrong, and no one who would save Christian civilization may collaborate with it in any undertaking whatsoever...