Word: archbishop
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Biography of a Bookie Joint"-a CBS-TV documentary uncovering local cops on the take-cast a dark cloud over the annual Boston Police Ball until Richard Cardinal Gushing, 66, dropped around with an evening-saving message. "In my theology," proclaimed Boston's homegrown Roman Catholic archbishop, "gambling in itself is not a sin . . . It's the abuse that makes gambling evil. We all have our faults. But why hang them, as it were, like dirty linen on a clothesline from one end of the country to the other? Someone betrayed us . . ." But, though it earned lusty cheers...
Died. The Most Reverend Francis Patrick Keough, D.D., 70, unassuming, cigar-smoking 11th Archbishop of Baltimore (the U.S.'s first Roman Catholic see), an Irish immigrant's son who served for 7 years as administrative board chairman of the National Catholic Welfare Conference, was known as "Archbishop of the poor" for his lifelong ministrations to orphans and the aged; of complications following a stroke; in Washington...
...final nominations for the 100-member policy-making Central Committee and the six presidents. The result: a Central Committee still dominated by North Americans (21) and West Europeans (26) but with 18 Orthodox members and 28 Asians and Africans. The new presidents: the Most Rev. Arthur Michael Ramsey,- Archbishop of Canterbury; Pastor Martin Niemoeller, World War I submarine hero, president of the Evangelical (Lutheran) Church in Hesse-Nassau, Germany; Presbyterian Layman Sir Francis Ibiam, Governor General of the Eastern Provinces of Nigeria; Archbishop lakovos of New York, head of the Greek Orthodox Church in North and South America; Methodist Layman...
...David Gullette's portrayal of the archbishop, humanity overcomes certainty. He turns to arguing, and frequently seeks to persuade: he does not trust to the power of Eliot's spare poetry. His Becket is strong and individual; Eliot believed that the martyr was a spiritual ideal who had gone beyond humanity...
...still I wonder, all dramatic problems aside, whether the Archbishop murdered this evening was really a saint...