Word: archbishop
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Penitentes, a lay society of obscure medieval origin, are found from Texas to California among the Spanish-speaking Catholics. During the Golden Age of New Mexican flagellation (1850-90), the Penitentes' zeal bred scandalous tales of actual crucifixions, often fatal, among members. In 1889 the Catholic archbishop of Santa Fe banned the cult as barbaric. It now enjoys clerical toleration. Weakened but persistent, the Penitentes retreated to remote villages, continued their Holy Week rites, but stood by with carbines to ward off nosy gringos who were baffled but fascinated by the twin Spanish traits: a passionate sense...
Episcopal Departure. New York's Episcopalian Bishop, the Right Reverend William T. Manning, may sometimes have looked to laymen like a U.S. Archbishop of Canterbury, but he is too solid a churchman to make that mistake himself. * His unerring knowledge of the rules and his uncompromising adherence to them have been the admiration of his close subordinates and the discomfiture of his Episcopalian antagonists. Bishop Manning has almost always been right. That rigid position has not endeared him to his opponents-or to the public; his vigilant guardianship of orthodoxy has often made New York's Bishop look...
...Dublin's private Catholic schools, church teachers carried on. One game little nun took on more than 100 extra pupils, then broke down in tears. But before week's end Dublin's Archbishop McQuaid gave the strikers his official sympathy...
Last summer the spiritual head of the non-Roman-Catholic Armenians, Archbishop Kevork Cheorekjian, received a high decoration and a new automobile from Marshal Stalin. Now it was the Pope's turn. Though he might not have so many pieces in this corner of the chessboard as his opponent, Pius was playing them well. Vatican gossip already mentioned 50-year-old Agagianian as a possible successor to the present Pope...
Died. John Cardinal Glennon, 83, Roman Catholic archbishop of St. Louis for 42 years, a Prince of the Church for 18 days; in Dublin (his native Eire), during a stopover on the long air voyage home from the Vatican (see RELIGION...