Word: archbishops
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Government departments kept mum. Mexico City newsorgans played down any mention as "rumor," except La Prensa which appeared with the screamer "ARCHBISHOP DISAPPEARED." After a long night and day of mystery he reappeared...
Though he chiefly blamed Political Boss and ex-President Plutarco Elias Calles for the persecution of priests in Mexico, Archbishop Ruiz, just, meticulous, declared that in one respect General Calles and the Holy See see eye to eye. "I do not believe Calles represents any danger to the principle of private property, which the Church likewise supports," observed her Apostolic Delegate, "but he does represent a threat to the Church. . . . Some of Calles' actions, such as the Government distribution of lands to the peons and the establishment of minimum wage laws in industry, have won a good deal...
Beyond the reach of rich Boss Calles' revenge is the Apostolic Delegate but not the Primate of Mexico, Archbishop Pascual Diaz. No sooner had Archbishop Ruiz sounded off from the safety of Texas last week than Archbishop Diaz's secretary in Mexico City announced with anguish: "The Primate has been arrested and I cannot find out where he is! A milkman who saw six men force the Archbishop's car to halt in a town known as El Arbolito has just told me the dreadful news...
Because of "the infirmity of advancing years," San Francisco's Catholic Archbishop Edward Joseph Hanna, 74, announced last week that he is retiring. A onetime theology professor suspected of "modernism," he became Bishop in 1912, Archbishop in 1915. Archbishop Hanna is rated one of California's first citizens, a liberal who served ably as its Commissioner of Immigration and last summer, during San Francisco's dock strike, headed President Roosevelt's three-man board (TIME, July 9, et seq.). Of the 18 U. S. Catholic Archbishops, he was the one most frequently mentioned for the Cardinal...
After withered Bachelor Lord Snell had pointed out that in 1933 alone 2,416 persons were jailed for debt in the British Isles, the Archbishop of Canterbury joined numerous Noble Lords in declaring that ''no delinquent should ever be imprisoned for any type of debt when nonpayment arises from inability...