Word: archbishop
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Churchmen were in the vanguard of the demands for reform, except for the Afrikaner Dutch Reformed leaders, who remained silent. Durban's Roman Catholic Archbishop Denis Hurley warned bluntly that "Africans are determined to have political participation in their future, and I don't see how white South Africa can face up to it fast enough." The Anglican archbishop of Cape Town, Netherlands-born Joost de Blank, announced that he was sending a representative to Geneva to ask the World Council of Churches to expel the South African Dutch Reformed Church unless it takes a stand against Verwoerd...
...Music Room of Buckingham Palace, Dr. Geoffrey F. Fisher, Archbishop of Canterbury, using water from the River Jordan, baptized lace-robed Prince Andrew Albert Christian Edward, the seven-week-old baby who stands second in line of succession to the British throne. Before the royal family and 60 guests, the archbishop turned to Prince Andrew's five godparents, including the Duke of Gloucester and Princess Alexandra, and intoned: "Dost thou, in the name of this child, renounce the devil and all his works, the vain pomp and glory of the world, with all the covetous desires of the same...
...Monsignor Enrico Dante, Prefect of Pontifical Ceremonies; Monsignor Antonio Samore, Secretary of the Sacred Congregation for Extraordinary Ecclesiastical Affairs; Monsignor Acacio Coussa, Assessor for the Holy Congregation for the Oriental Church; and Monsignor Giuseppe Ferretto, Secretary of the Sacred College. The foreign favorites: Monsignor Juan Landázuri Ricketts, Archbishop of Lima, and Monsignor Jose Newton de Almeida Batista, Archbishop of Brasilia. (The Pope may have decided to withhold Batista's formal elevation until his new archdiocese buildings are dedicated...
Since in pectore appointments are often made for political reasons, when public recognition from Rome might jeopardize a cardinal in his own country, Pope John's announcement touched off a rash of speculation about likely candidates in the Iron Curtain countries. Possibilities: Archbishop Josef Beran of Prague; Monsignor Franjo Seper, former assistant to Yugoslavia's late Cardinal Stepinac...
That duty, wrote the archbishop, springs from the need to keep too-large families from putting an unfair burden on the mother, an unfair handicap on the children, or '"any unreasonable liability upon society." The trouble with too many Catholics, argued Dr. Fisher, is that they will not concede this duty, but "tend rather to suggest that family planning springs only from fear of overpopulation or prudential and selfish desires...