Word: archbishop
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...everywhere in Allied countries, leaders of all faiths accepted the destruction of the monastery in good faith that its destruction had been necessary. Said Archbishop Michael J. Curley of Baltimore: "Every Catholic throughout the world will understand." Wrote the Rt. Rev. Stephen Schappler, Abbott of Conception Abbey at Conception, Mo.: "True to the device on her coat of arms, Succisa Virescit (when cut down, it grows again), the Abbey of Abbeys will have a rebirth. For that right our own boys are giving their all. Benedictines the world over are grateful to them...
...like area in the world. If Italy is steadily bombed or shelled, man's most concentrated cultural record may be destroyed. This dilemma reverberated in the letters column of the London Times last week. The issue-Art v. Human Life in Wartime-was first raised by the former Archbishop of Canterbury, Lord Lang of Lambeth (see p. 62). "It would indeed be lamentable," he wrote, "if by the action of our armies . . . incomparable treasures of the history of art and of religion were destroyed or even seriously damaged. . . . Even if this [Allied avoidance of bombings] were to involve...
Times readers reached for their pens; wrote the Rev. L. F. Harvey, of Shrewsbury: "He [Lord Lang] would have made the matter clearer had he said 'even at the cost of the lives of British and Allied troops.' . . . Does the Archbishop wish to convey that he regards human life as of less value than a monument?" Wrote Poet Sir John Squire, former editor of the London Mercury: "The Reverend Gentleman seems to think that stones are stones and St. Peter's but an organized quarry instead of a crystallization of the human spirit, building ad majorem...
intend to bomb Rome? The deed, he warned, "would rankle in the memory of every good European as did Rome's destruction by the Goths." Lord Lang of Lambeth (see p. 56), 79-year-old retired Archbishop of Canterbury, seconded the Bishop. Lord Lang was distressed by a tendency to "exult and gloat" over the bombings of Germany. He feared that this attitude would result in "a lamentable lapse" in Britons' outlook...
Storm center is the Vanguardia, a leftist party behind Picado. Formerly Communist, it changed its name and some of its precepts to win non-Communist support. Chief catch was Catholic Archbishop Victor Sanabria, who approved the party's objectives and was promptly denounced as a Communist. Said Archbishop Sanabria: "The reactionaries all call me a Communist because I open my arms to the poor. For these people, Christ would be a Communist...