Word: archbishop
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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King George VI lunched at Fifth Army advance headquarters as a guest of Lieut. General Mark Clark, along with Manhattan's Archbishop Spellman (see RELIGION) and the Allied commander in Italy, General Sir Harold R. L. G. Alexander. Some 300 yards from the table, a U.S. doughboy stepped on a brace of German mines, which promptly exploded, killing the soldier. At His Majesty's table no one was hurt...
...second time within a year, New York's Archbishop Francis Joseph Spellman was out in the warring world last week. The flying prelate (he once held a pilot's license) is Military Vicar of all Roman Catholics in the U.S. armed forces. Bent on visiting as many of them as he can, he stopped first in North Africa, then flew on to Italy. He visited the Fifth Army's General Headquarters just behind the firing line, had lunch with King George VI and Lieut. General Mark W. Clark, offered an afternoon Mass for servicemen...
...Archbishop Spellman had three audiences with Pope Pius XII. What the Archbishop and his great & good friend discussed was known only to themselves. But the question of Cardinals for the U.S. may have been mentioned. Since the death of Boston's William Cardinal O'Connell (TIME, May 1), the U.S. has had only one Prince of the Church, instead of its normal three or four. He is Philadelphia's aging (79) Denis Cardinal Dougherty...
Died. The Most Rev. Edward Joseph Hanna, 83, San Francisco's longtime (1915-35) labor-arbitrating Archbishop; in Rome, where he had lived since his retirement. Smooth-faced, hook-nosed Archbishop Hanna's active 20-year leadership in West Coast labor reform climaxed in 1934 when he was the Roosevelt-appointed Chairman of the National Longshoremen's Board which raised dockworkers' wages, granted them a 30-hour week...
...Roman Catholics in Texas and Oklahoma last week were commanded to cooperate with Protestants and Jews, Purpose: to help rebuild "a broken civilization." The unusual order was mainly the work of San Antonio's Archbishop Robert Emmet Lucey, but the six bishops in the area also signed it. Wrote the prelates: "For Catholics this is a c ommand...