Word: archbishop
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...life of St. Francis of Assisi. What really interested him was the movements of Allied ambassadors at the Vatican. Other spies tapped telephones, monitored Vatican Radio transmissions and intercepted cables. Experts in Hermann Göring's aviation ministry cracked the code by which Rome communicated with Archbishop Cesare Orsenigo, its apostolic nuncio in Berlin...
...leading religious leaders of Britain, the Catholics' John Cardinal Heenan of Westminster and the Anglicans' Archbishop Ramsey of Canterbury, are deeply opposed on the issue of canonization. Cardinal Heenan sees it as a badly needed restorative "to recall the Catholic Church in Britain to a sense of discipline and allegiance to the Pope." Archbishop Ramsey is worried that it will rekindle religious antagonism. "I am increasingly convinced that the canonization would be harmful to the ecumenical cause in England and that it would encourage the emotions which militate against it," he said. He finds a "siege mentality" among...
Honor Where Due. However, arguments for and against canonization cross religious lines. The Archbishop was taken to task by some of the Anglican clergy for interfering in Catholic affairs. Said the Dean of Prescot at Lancashire: "The recollection and commemoration of men and women who died for genuine religious convictions will hearten not only Catholics but many others." Oxford's A. L. Rowse, a leading Elizabethan scholar and a "nonsectarian rationalist." put forward historical arguments against canonization. "The fact is," he said, "that by its bull of 1570, the papacy declared war on Elizabeth I, not only by excommunicating...