Word: archbishop
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...sermon after being enthroned as Archbishop of Westminster, Monsignor Bernard Griffin, Primate of English Ro-man Catholics, told the international congregation in jampacked Westminster Cathedral that easy divorce, birth control, books and films that sneer at the sanctity of marriage, are all signposts along the road to ruin. Said he: "The decline of a nation has always begun with the disintegration of the family...
Three dinners are announced for Wednesday 19, January. The largest will be that given for the Roman Catholic chaplains at the Copley Plaza Hotel under the auspices of the Military Ordinary of New York. Archbishop Francis J. Spellman, Military Vicar, and Bishops John O'Hara, C. S. C., and William T. McCall C. SS. R., Military Delegates, will be present. The contingent of chaplains will be led by Chaplain William D. Clark, Commandant of the School...
Cardinal Kinsley, Britain's only Cardinal and the Archbishop of Westminster, died last winter (TIME, March 29). Last week Pope Pius XII appointed his successor: 44-year-old Monsignor Bernard Griffin, Auxiliary (assistant) Bishop of Birmingham. The little-known prelate will be the leader of England's and Wales's 2,400,000 Roman Catholics. The appointment was also tantamount to telling Mgr. Griffin that he will some day get a Cardinal...
...naming Griffin, who has been a Bishop only five years, His Holiness skipped over 19 other prelates. The Pope was looking ahead: like the Anglican Church's leader, William Temple, Archbishop of Canterbury, Mgr. Griffin is a liberal on social questions. A leader in the progressive Catholic Social Guild, he has backed Sir William Henry Beveridge's postwar Social Security plan: "We need it. We want to get it going as soon as possible...
...Roman Catholics in the U.S. Archbishop Spellman is also Military Vicar of the Armed Forces, an ecclesiastical but not a military title. But Army Chief of Chaplains, Brigadier General William R. Arnold, is a Roman Catholic Monsignor...