Word: archbishop
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Last week one of the top men in the U.S. Roman Catholic hierarchy, Boston's young (49), rugged, liberal Archbishop Richard J. Gushing, spoke stern words to U.S. womankind. Said...
...would say their actions proved the utter uselessness of all the sharp religious controversy I have read about in the last three issues of TIME received here. I would say to Archbishop McNicholas that the actions of Catholic Chaplain John P. Washington, one of the four heroes of that troopship, prove beyond a shadow of a doubt that there most definitely is a "common denominator in religion." I would challenge Bishop McConnell and the other signers of the statement made public by The Protestant to say how Chaplain Washington was serving the enemies of democracy. I would ask all Jews...
...virtue of this mandate, I ... do induct, install and enthrone you, Most Reverend Father in God, Geoffrey . . . into the archbishopric and the office of the Archbishop of Canterbury...
...wearing a miter and a white brocaded cope with gold embroidery, walked slowly to the 700-year-old marble Chair of St. Augustine, sat gingerly down on its red cushion. With this simple act the Rt. Hon. and Most Rev. Geoffrey Francis Fisher, 57, last week became the 99th Archbishop of Canterbury, Primate of All England...
Died. Justinian Cardinal Seredi, 60, Roman Catholic Primate of Hungary, Archbishop of Esztergom, who was carried off as a hostage by the Nazis just before the Soviet armies took Budapest; of a heart attack ("where and under what conditions ... it is not yet precisely known," said a Vatican German-language broadcast). As early as 1934 he said, "It is not possible for a Catholic priest to approve Nazi principles, and I decidedly prohibit . . . even a benevolent attitude of any of my priests toward...