Word: archbishop
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Continents. Africa and Asia are Catholicism's open spaces. There the Pope's appointments exemplified his policy. The choice of Archbishop Teodosio de Gouveia of Portugal's colonial Lourengo Marques not only gave Africa its first modern cardinal but emphasized colonial peoples' right to effective representation in world affairs. The Vatican piously added: "The Sacred College must set the example...
Canada's new place as a leading "middle power" was duly recognized by the selection of her first English-speaking cardinal, Toronto's balding, blue-eyed Archbishop James Charles McGuigan (rhymes with McTwiggan), to balance French-speaking Quebec's Rodrigue Cardinal Villeneuve. When Cardinal-designate McGuigan was five years old he decided to become a priest, told his mother: "When I get big I shall preach big." He has made a notable record in largely Protestant Toronto...
...ideal of "one flock and one shepherd" remained an ideal; the scandalous reality of a divided Christendom remained too. The ideal was reasserted by Pope Pius, in a letter to the Archbishop of Trent on the quadricentennial of the Council...
Died. The Most Rev. and Rt. Hon. Cosmo Gordon Lang, 81, retired (in 1942) Archbishop of Canterbury, who helped raise the wind that blew Edward VIII from his throne ; in Richmond, England...
...Scottish Presbyterian minister's son who became Archbishop of York at 44, of Canterbury at 64, he was a handsome, worldlywise, rosy-cheeked bachelor. During his Primacy he advocated interdenominational unity, a soft answer on remarriage after divorce - but not in the Simpson affair, of which he said: ". . . strange and sad it is that he [Edward] should have sought his happiness in a manner inconsistent with Christian principles of marriage...