Word: archbishop
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...role as military vicar for the armed forces of the United States, Archbishop Francis J. Spellman of New York, played host to the Catholic chaplains of the Army Chaplains' School here at a dinner meeting Wednesday night in the Copley Plaza Hotel. Heading the group of more than 100 chaplains who attended was Colonel William D. Cleary, commanding officer of the school...
...Words and Cool. Said 83-year-old William Cardinal O'Connell, Archbishop of Boston: "The whole Christian world is saddened and grieved at the terrible news of the bombardment of Rome. . . . Whether or not it was thought to be a military necessity we must leave to the judgment and conscience of those responsible...
...Cyril Forster Garbett, Archbishop of York, recently gave up half his ?9,000 ($36,000) salary. Tories who dislike His Grace for his leftish economic and social ideas were quick to point a scornful finger at this renunciation. Said Sir Herbert Williams in the House of Commons: "He has entered into a perfectly splendid arrangement . . . [he] will pay less taxation in the future...
...High Church Archbishop's defense last week came Low Church Viscount Caldecote (Thomas Walker Hobart Inskip), England's Lord Chief Justice, a former Lord Chancellor. He noted that the financial arrangement between Dr. Garbett and the ecclesiastical commissioners (authorized by the Church Assembly last March) lets the commissioners foot some of York's official bills. Why not? said the Viscount. He thought the attacks on the Archbishop "ill judged and unfair," found the "perfectly legitimate arrangement . . . would . . . relieve him of considerable personal bookkeeping...
...Chaplain Cleary has been serving with the Army on numerous stations since 1918, the award of this office, which carries the title of Right Reverend Monsignor, was made for outstanding and conspicuous service to the country as well as to the Church. Upon his return from the war zone, Archbishop Francis Spellman, head Catholic Chaplain of the U. S., will invest the Colonel with his new robes of office...