Word: archbishop
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...Cardinal Spellman. In setting up a formal hierarchical synod under the title of the National Conference of Catholic Bishops, the prelates also made provisions for electing its officers. Chosen on the third ballot as first president of the conference was the Most Rev. John Francis Dearden, 59, the progressive Archbishop of Detroit...
After 50 years as a priest-27 of them as Archbishop of New York-New York's Francis Cardinal Spellman, 77, might have welcomed a rest. So when Pope Paul VI suggested that bishops over age 75 retire to allow younger men to take over their responsibilities, Cardinal Spellman "humbly and willingly" offered his resignation. Although the cardinal has already turned over many duties to his six auxiliary bishops, the Pope asked him to carry on. "I accept this decision," said the cardinal, "as God's will...
...Second Vatican Council has been slow to catch on in the seminaries. Changes are, however, on the way. At many of the colleges, the rigid discipline of the past has been relaxed to give more adult freedom to the seminarians. In February, Pope Paul named France's progressive Archbishop Gabriel Garrone as second-in-command of the conservative Congregation of Seminaries, which keeps a close watch on the curriculums of the Roman schools. Last week another hopeful change took place: the venerable Greg got a new rector, French Canadian Jesuit Hervé Carrier, 45. Sociologist Carrier, who studied...
Pope Paul has frequently expressed his conviction that the training of priests must be brought more into line with modern pedagogy-and the appointment of such men as Archbishop Garrone and Father Carrier is a step in that direction. The changes will come none too soon for the seminarians, who have lately displayed signs of restlessness at the archaic rules that still determine their training. Last year one group of students at the Greg circulated a petition demanding an updating of the curriculum, began to boycott classes when the administration gave a temporizing response. As it happens, Father Carrier...
Evangelist Billy Graham's huge summer crusade did not so much as rattle a window in Lambeth Palace, residence of the Church of England's Archbishop of Canterbury, the Most Rev. Michael Ramsey, 61. Stepping off a plane in Vancouver, B.C., during a swing of his own through western Canada, Ramsey conceded that Billy may have "won some converts" but insisted that "we don't need his type of evangelism in England." In these perilous times, he continued, England "needs a thoughtful approach to religion, not bursts of emotionalism." Mused Billy, in thoughtful reply: "Interesting, in view...