Word: archbishop
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Charmed Circle. Founded 523 years ago this week by the worldly divine, Henry Chichele, Archbishop of Canterbury, All Souls was set up for "poor and indigent clerks" to pray in perpetuity for the souls of noblemen "drenched with the bowl of bitter death" during England's ruinous wars against France. Not much perpetual praying is done any more; rather the college is in purpose much like the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton, which in fact was modeled on All Souls. The school was not always respected; the 18th century All Souls degenerated into "a charmed circle of county...
Becket. Arthur Kennedy as the Archbishop and Sir Laurence Olivier, a formidable Henry II. Reopening on Broadway...
...missionaries. According to Methodist Mission headquarters in New York, eight African Methodist pastors have been killed, either shot down by armed white civilians or executed by soldiers after hurried trials. A pastoral letter issued last week by five prominent white Roman Catholic churchmen in Angola, four bishops and one archbishop, denounced terrorism but called for "formation of a more perfect social situation, more supported by justice and charity...
Relaxed in the back seat of his black limousine, Richard Cardinal Gushing, Roman Catholic archbishop of Boston, riffled through the newspaper as the car rolled through the Massachusetts countryside. He was on his way to dedicate the first Catholic church in the town of Dover-red brick St. Philomena's, which Pastor Joseph J. Boyle and the members of his three-year-old parish had just completed. Suddenly a news item riveted Cardinal Cushing's attention: the Vatican's Sacred Congregation of Rites had stricken St. Philomena, "the virgin martyr," from the roster of saints...
...really the title role in name only: in his drama of the medieval King who idolized his chief counselor and then suffered him to be killed, Anouilh ignored too much that was vital in Becket-his great career as Chancellor, his shift from worldling to ascetic, his clashes, as Archbishop of Canterbury, with Henry. If Anouilh's Henry is not quite a full portrait either, it is for an Olivier a fat part-a touch too fat, for it hides Henry's bone structure. But Olivier catches him in a whole succession of picturesque moments and shifting moods...