Word: archbishop
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Pope John XXIII appointed four new cardinals last week, thereby raising the membership of the Sacred College of Cardinals to 86. Two of the new red hats go to South Americans, one to an Italian and one to an American,* Archbishop Joseph Elmer Ritter, 68, of St. Louis, Mo., one of America's most vigorous Roman Catholic orelates...
When he was appointed Archbishop of St. Louis in 1946, to succeed John Cardinal Glennon (who died on his way back to the U.S. after being made a cardinal by Pope Pius XII), St. Louisans found Indiana-born Archbishop Ritter a far different kind of man from the warm and outgoing Archbishop Glennon. Slender almost to frailty, with rimless glasses and a gentle voice. Ritter seemed unapproachable and colorless at first, but it was not long before St. Louis' 450,000 Roman Catholics knew how much more he was than an office manager...
Some of the city's parochial schools were segregated and some were not; Archbishop Ritter ordered in 1947 that all be integrated at once. "The cross on top of our schools must mean something," he said. When a group of diehard segregationists threatened to take legal action, Archbishop Ritter squelched them fast with the announcement that anyone involved in such a movement would be excommunicated...
...meeting at the summit. Vatican observers said hopefully that "a first and significant step has been taken," and Pope John saw the meeting going "only as far as the threshold of great problems." A cautious spokesman for the Church of England said, "His Holiness expressed to the Archbishop his great desire to increase brotherly feelings among all men, and especially among all Christians." But as the Archbishop had observed in advance: "Talking trivialities is in itself a portent of great significance. The pleasantries may be pleasantries about profundities." He seemed relieved that the interview had been private: "I am quite...
Which Is Greatest? The Archbishop made clear his hopes for the future in a sermon delivered the night before his meeting with the Pope. Citing some lines from the Gospel According to St. Luke ("Then there arose a reasoning among them which of them should be the greatest"), the Archbishop discussed the long separation of the two churches. "The cold war was indeed a war," he said. "A strife for victory, for converts, for political power in many countries with victims and martyrdoms and cruelties and oppressions. That period is not altogether past, but it is passing...