Word: archbishop
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...barriers to the building of one Christian church; yet both by word and deed he made that dream appear closer to hand. As much as Vatican protocol allowed, he was an open-door Pope, and his welcome always seemed warmest for those he called his "separated brethren." An Archbishop of Canterbury came to call for the first time since 1397; so did a Moderator of the Church of Scotland, a president of a Negro Baptist church, the Presiding Bishop of the U.S. Protestant Episcopal Church...
...Constantinople and a scholarship fund that salvaged more talent, including Encyclopedist Denis Diderot and one Franç Marie Arouet, the talented son of a notary who later called himself Voltaire. "Everyone who carries a name in France has spent his early youth in Louis-le-grand," gloated the Archbishop of Paris -charitably including that perverted praetorian, the Marquis de Sade. The pattern continued despite the suppression of the Jesuits in 1762, when the jealous Sorbonne swallowed the school. During the French Revolution, the school doubled as a jail for "enemies" of the Revolution, including Old Grad Robespierre...
...dissenters, in whom a sense of injustice, like Karl Marx's boils, is almost a physical affliction: Spartacus and Tom Paine, Abelard and John Brown, Saint-Just and Sam Houston, Cromwell and Bernard Shaw. There are also those who are pushed to their rebellion almost against their will, like Archbishop Thomas Cranmer, who recanted several times but then, cursing his right hand for signing the recantations, deliberately put the hand into the flames; or Luther, gradually moving from reform to open spiritual insurrection. There are those who flee into rebellion as if it were a second country, like Lenin...
...tingling silence, Princess Alexandra and Angus Ogilvy stood before the Archbishop of Canterbury to recite their marriage vows. In the hearing of some 200 million TV droppers-in around the world, the princess promised in a soft, firm voice "to love, cherish, and to obey" her commoner husband. When they had knelt at the altar and signed the register, the Ogil-vys marched merrily back into the pale afternoon. As they drove off in a crystal coach, bagpipers skirled a pibroch, and the great bells pealed...
Richard Cardinal Cushing, Roman Catholic archbishop of Boston, has rejected a former Harvard professor's contention that the Catholic Church might approve an oral contraceptive which the professor helped develop...