Word: archbishop
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...meaning. The U.S. public had never listened so widely or so intensely to radio news before, and it bought more receiving sets during the crisis than in any previous three weeks of radio history. At the end of his 18-day stint, Kaltenborn was so groggy that when the Archbishop of Canterbury's prayer for peace came in over the short wave, he analyzed that...
Said Malvern's godfather, William Temple, who is also Archbishop of Canterbury, Primate of All England: "Our function is to watch the politicians, spurring them on by criticism of the existing order in the light of our principles...
...same meeting spoke up the Anglican Church's second-ranking prelate, Cyril Forster Garbett, Archbishop of York: "The condition of many of the children from the large industrial areas is a disgrace to our civilization* Evacuation has thrown a sudden searchlight on the evils of which the majority of citizens are ignorant. It showed that there still exists a submerged tenth over which squalor, ignorance and vice reign supreme...
...Bishop Thomas Mary O'Leary authorized this unusual gesture of Catholic friendship for Russia. Of the 145 U.S. Catholic Bishops three others have endorsed this campaign: Chicago's Auxiliary Bishop Bernard J. Sheil, Galveston's Bishop Christopher E. Byrne, and St. Louis' aging, popular Archbishop John J. Glennon...
...most absorbing speculation concerned a rapprochement between the Vatican and the Kremlin, involving, rumor said, a visit by the Archbishop to Moscow, perhaps from Teheran. It was a dizzy prospect to dwell on, for Communism and Catholicism have been archenemies through a bitter quarter century. Yet Francis Spellman may have talked to Russian envoys in Ankara. The dissolution of the Comintern (TIME, May 31) had come in the midst of his mission, and it must have pleased the papacy. The Vatican radio had begun broadcasts to Russia, friendly in nature and designed to dispel the Russian people's "complete...