Word: archbishop
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Archbishop Francis Joseph Spellman, a chubby little man with twinkling eyes, looked down from the plane's windows on to the red & gold of Spanish soil, stretching below like a scarred and, crisscrossed piece of hide. From the air the land looked peaceful. But its people were sullen, impoverished, embittered, under a Fascist dictatorship which had claimed that the Spanish Civil War was a crusade for the Roman Catholic Church...
Only the chubby little man knew what was. likely to await him when he left Madrid and flew, on to Italy, another Catholic country impoverished, embittered, corrupted by Fascism. He traveled as the Apostolic Vicar of Roman Catholic chaplains in the U.S. Army and Navy, and as the Archbishop of New York, wealthiest Catholic See in the world. More than that, he was as anti-Fascist as a Russian soldier, as American as ice cream...
...American bishop ever consecrated at St. Peter's in Rome, and he may have been called to Rome to receive the red hat of a cardinal. It was also possible that he had been called to discuss political problems involving the servants of the Church. Whatever his mission, Archbishop Spellman's visit concentrated the attention of world diplomats on the Vatican for the second time within a fortnight...
...London, for example, more than one of 12 TIME and LIFE editorial people there knows what it is like to walk and talk with the Archbishop of Canterbury (he has a laugh that rattles windows)-or knows the inside of H. G. Wells' house near Regent's Park (he likes to play charades, brags about his diabetes)-or what it is like to dine with Labor Minister Ernest Bevin at the Trades Union Club (he drops cigaret ashes on his front, wears colored shirts, talks about crossing carrier pigeons with parrots so they can deliver verbal messages...
Fastest-growing diocese in the whole Roman Catholic Church is the U.S. Diocese of the Army & Navy. Head of this world-sprawled See, with the title of Military Vicar, is New York's genial Archbishop Francis J. Spellman. Since he must shepherd over a million of the faithful in his own Archdiocese, the real work of the Army & Navy Diocese falls on his military delegate, lanky, Spanish-speaking Bishop John F. O'Hara, onetime president of Notre Dame. And Bishop O'Hara is so busy that last week the Pope gave him an assistant...