Word: archbishop
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Throughout his long and lustrous career, Composer Igor Stravinsky, 80, has consistently refused the degrees and formal honors that accompany fame. But since 1959, at the invitation of New Mexico's affable Roman Catholic Archbishop Edwin V. Byrne, Stravinsky (himself devoutly Russian Orthodox) has traveled to Santa Fe to conduct such works as his magnificent Symphony of Psalms in the city's St. Francis' Cathedral. Now Byrne urged him to accept from Pope John
Died. John Cardinal D'Alton, So, Archbishop of Armagh and Roman Catholic Primate of All Ireland, a noted ancient historian (Horace and His Age), and spiritual father to 3,284,331 Irishmen, who long worked quietly for political union between the Irish Republic and the six British counties of Northern Ireland, was instrumental in ending the I.R.A.-inspired bloodshed between his countrymen on the divided island; of a heart attack; in Dublin...
Died. William Cardinal Godfrey, 73, Archbishop of Westminster and leader since 1958 of the 5,000,000 Roman Catholics in England and Wales, a Liverpool trucker's son known for his vigorously sharp attacks on what he considered Britain's declining morality and a bitter foe of those "disciples of despair'' who advocate artificial birth control; of a heart attack; in London...
...wholesale reform, but they did not at first realize their own strength. Gradually, encouraged by the knowledge that the world was watching, they became emboldened. "We heard men dare to say things we'd privately been thinking for a long time ourselves," a U.S. bishop said. Britain's Archbishop T. D. Roberts remonstrated that the conservative Ernesto Cardinal Rufini could "get up in St. Peter's and say that Christ's bride, the Church, is already without spot or wrinkle?but I say she's still got bulges in all the wrong places...
John welcomed more rulers (32) than any other Pope, and received some historic papal guests: the first Greek Orthodox sovereign to visit the Pope since the days of the last Byzantine emperor, the first Archbishop of Canterbury since the 14th century, the first chief prelate of the U.S. Episcopal Church, the first Moderator of the Scottish Kirk, the first Shinto high priest. When Jacqueline Kennedy came to visit, John asked his secretary how to address her. Replied the secretary: ' 'Mrs. Kennedy,' or just 'Madame.' since she is of French origin and has lived in France." Waiting in his private library...