Word: archbishop
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Adam & the Archbishop...
...Archbishop Gushing of Boston blames the women for the "coarse and vulgar" modern world [TIME, May 14] ? So did Adam: "The woman Thou gavest to be with me, she gave me of the tree...
Said Britain's Archbishop of Canterbury, Dr. Geoffrey Francis Fisher, in a diocesan letter which the London Times reprinted last week: ". . . The most unendurable revelation of what has been done in concentration camps has not only shocked us, but shows us how perverted her people are. For the people as a whole cannot be acquitted of knowledge and of acquiescence. But we must not allow ourselves to think that there are no good Germans. Let us always remember that thousands of Germans suffered and died in those camps in their resistance to the Nazi regime...
...bells of the church carillon pealed, 400 swarthy fishermen in their Sunday best, followed by a score of clergy, made their way from the church to the fish pier. Archbishop Richard J. Gushing of Boston, in scarlet, purple and gold vestments, mounted a flag-decked platform facing the 24 draggers tied up together, with pennants fluttering in a stiff breeze. In his stentorian voice, which made the giant loudspeakers superfluous, the Archbishop said...
Then, shaking toward the boats drops of holy water from a silver aspergillum, the Archbishop read the blessing: "Deign. 0 Lord, to hear our supplications and bless these ships . . . and all who sail therein. . . . Extend to them Thy right hand as Thou didst to Peter walking upon the sea, and send Thy holy angel from Heaven to protect and guard them from every danger...