Word: archbishop
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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From Religion: Francis Cardinal Spellman, Archbishop of New York, will discuss the U.S. spiritual role in the world. He has proclaimed it thus: "America has been, and must ever continue to be, under God, the Beacon of Liberty . . . the proof that humanity can live in mutual respect based on the law of God, voiced through the conscience of man, and in mutual esteem, based on the responsibility of democratic life." Cardinal Spellman, the closest U.S. friend of Pope Pius XII, is as American as an apple dumpling - a onetime trolley-car conductor who now holds an airplane pilot...
...delegates crowded into the grey stone Assembly building on Kuo Fu Road. The Generalissimo and Mme. Chiang entered almost unnoticed by a side door. But among the drably clad provincials were some colorful figures: a Tibetan delegate, in bright-hued robes; the towering Catholic prelate, Archbishop Paul Yu-pin; little, rotund Publisher Hu Lin of China's foremost paper, Ta Rung Pao; brisk Premier T. V. Soong; and chubby Dr. Sun Fo, son of the Republic's founder, Sun Yatsen. The Communists were missing...
...TIME for Nov. 4 ... I saw the disgraceful remarks of the Anglican Archbishop of York. Must Protestant sects make it so difficult for us Catholics to win them to the one true Church of Christ on earth? There can be no freedom for error, and we are right and they are wrong. Why must they expect that they have any right to religious freedom...
...when Victor was freed (on 20 million CN dollars bail, or U.S. $6,000), he gave little credit to the prayers of his own followers or of John's. The Soviet news agency Tass, jubilantly reporting the Archbishop's "liberation" and a service celebrating it, said Victor told "thousands of believers": "Behind us like a cliff stands Soviet power...
...Nonconformist churches enter into "full communion" as the first step toward a church united. For more than a quarter century thereafter the project gathered dust in ecclesiastical archives. But this week, in a sermon at the University of Cambridge, the Most Rev. and Right Honorable Geoffrey Francis Fisher, Archbishop of Canterbury, forcibly reminded British Christians that the idea was not dead. Excerpts...