Word: archbishop
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...recent years they have been known as positively anti-Catholic. Before the Catholic Church will issue a dispensation permitting marriage with a non-Catholic, there must be agreement that all offspring will be brought up in the Church. Kathleen paid a visit to Archbishop Godfrey, the Apostolic Delegate, who did not need to tell her that if she married outside the Church her children would be regarded by the Church as illegitimate. He told her. Lord Hartington declined to marry in the Church, or to agree that future Caven dishes would be Catholic. Kathleen decided to marry anyway. The Duke...
Somewhat to his surprise the Archbishop of York at his first U.S. news conference had found newsmen less interested in religion in Britain than religion in Russia, which Dr. Garbett visited for ten days last year. Twice last week he spoke his mind on this controversial topic...
...Haven, where the Archbishop received an honorary degree from Berkeley Divinity School, he said: "The reason for Stalin's grant of freedom of worship seems to be his genuine love for the Russian people. ... I cannot read his mind and cannot therefore give his actual motive, [but] it was welcomed by the people longing to worship. There is the explanation that the grant was made for political reasons. However, the claim that it was inspired by Stalin's love for the people was substantiated by an ambassador to Russia who knows and understands the country. The ambassador...
...Last week Archbishop Grigori of Saratov and Stalingrad announced that a long-standing rumor is about to come true: Moscow's Orthodox Theological Institute will open "shortly." It will be Russia's first theological seminary since 1917. Students must be over 18, will get a fiveyear, tuition-free course. Required course: the Constitution of the U.S.S.R...
...archiepiscopal residence. Inside, on his deathbed, lay an 84-year-old Prince of the Church. The fingers of one hand clutched a crucifix. Weakly the prelate raised the crucifix, gave his last blessing to those kneeling around his bed. Thus to His Eminence William Cardinal O'Connell, Archbishop of Boston, fortified by the last rites of the Church and consoled by Pope Pius' cabled message of "eternal affection," death came in Boston last week...