Word: archbishop
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...dozen roles and garbs. He was a specialist in nothing-except courage, imagination, intelligence. He was never afraid to lead, and he knew that a leader must sometimes risk failure and disapproval rather than seek universal acclaim. He had been, as Denis Brogan put it, "everything but the Archbishop of Canterbury"-and he often seemed more confident than any archbishop that he had the ear of God and was watched over with solicitude by angels...
...Kindly Pastor. Among so many cardinals, at least one was sure to be an American, but the Pope's choice was close to being a surprise: shy, tiny (5 ft. 3 in.) Lawrence Joseph Shehan, 66, who has been Archbishop of Baltimore since 1961. He becomes the sixth U.S. cardinal, and the second in the history of the nation's oldest diocese.* A kindly pastor who still makes sick calls and regularly hears confession in Baltimore's Mary Our Queen Cathedral, Shehan is also a forceful worker for civil rights and Christian unity. He has banned...
...Shehan's elevation to the cardinalate was unexpected-there were Vatican observers who thought Philadelphia's energetic Archbishop John Krol a more plausible candidate-other appointments were not. Some of Paul's red hats went to men who govern ancient European sees that have come to expect cardinal-archbishops as a matter of course-Milan's Giovanni Colombo, for example, and Florence's Ermenegildo Florit. As Archbishop of Westminster, England's primatial Catholic see, John Carmel Heenan had a right to expect a cardinalate; so did Archbishop William Conway of Armagh, the Primate...
...Holy Communion in St. Margaret's, the House of Commons' parish church, the Archbishop of Canterbury intoned, "We commend to God Winston Spencer Churchill as he approaches death." A private message from the Pope was delivered by Monsignor Cardinale, the apostolic delegate to Britain. There were special prayers at Harrow, his old school, and at Castle Rising, near Sandringham. where the Queen and members of the royal family attended church...
Died. Pierre Cardinal Gerlier, 85. Archbishop of Lyons, early advocate of ecumenism, champion of French worker-priests, and central figure in French Agnostic Edouard Herriot's 1957 deathbed conversion to Roman Catholicism; of a heart attack; in Lyons...