Word: archbishop
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...night during the Quebec Conference, Jean Marie Rodrigue, Cardinal Villeneuve, Archbishop of Quebec, had dined with President Franklin Roosevelt and Prime Minister Winston Churchill. Thereupon he canceled a projected trip to Mexico. A big Lancaster bomber flew him from Montreal to Britain (it was the first plane trip of his 60 years and he loved it). In London he stayed in a darkly elegant house behind Westminster Cathedral as the guest of Archbishop Bernard Griffin, called briefly on Canadian High Commissioner Vincent Massey and other officials. He had an audience with King George...
...late, famed William Cardinal O'Connell's successor as Archbishop of Boston, Pope Pius last week named Boston's Bishop Richard J. Gushing, who thus became the youngest Archbishop in the U.S. For the 1,133,075 Roman Catholics of the nation's second largest See, the Holy Father's choice could not have been happier...
...Irish immigrants (his father was a Boston Elevated blacksmith), tall, rugged, liberal Archbishop Gushing has spent all of his 49 years in Boston. Unlike Cardinal O'Connell, who was aloof and often absent from Boston, the new Archbishop has always kept his latchstring out, always stuck close to his job. That job, since 1929, has been the direction of Boston's Society for the Propagation of the Faith, and Gushing is a name known & loved in the farthest Catholic missions...
William Temple, Archbishop of Canterbury and Primate of All England, was found by the Christian Century to have changed his mind about punishing Germany. At an earlier stage of the war it seemed to the Archbishop that "the peace terms must for a limited period include a penal element, if justice were to be done. But . . . those of us who believe that this intense bombing [of German cities] is justified as a military measure . . . must also recognize that it constitutes a penalty for German aggression so great that no other can be called...
...prospective U.S. candidates for the red hat, two are virtual certainties: Archbishop Spellman and Chicago's Archbishop Samuel Alphonsus Stritch. Both, as a matter of fact, may now be Cardinals in petto, i.e., in the Pope's breast...