Word: archbishops
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...London a solemn convention of British church musicians was admonished by the Most Rev. William Temple, Archbishop of York, to stop ending hymns with "Amen." Said the beefy, chuckling Archbishop: "I would plead that we should get out of the evil habit. If the tune is a good one, it comes to an end by itself. To put an 'Amen' afterward is redundant-I think it is rather a bore...
...founded the American Birth Control League. Patrick Cardinal Hayes, then simply Archbishop Hayes of New York, gave it a big boost by having the League's first convention raided...
...generalissimo of Mexico's war on the Catholic Church, Boss Plutarco Elias Calles, was last week in a Los Angeles hospital recovering from an operation on his gall bladder. The leader of the Church's counterattack, fat, sloe-eyed Archbishop Pascual Diaz, sat grimly in the Archiepiscopal Palace in Mexico City. While the Government persecuted his flock, the Primate of All Mexico, who is a pure Jalisco Indian, held in reserve one dread (to Catholics) weapon, the awful word of excommunication, which he may pronounce, the Pope may confirm...
...Saints," goes the formula of the excommunication, "forced by the pressure of his contumacy, we excommunicate him with these words, and we proclaim him to be avoided until he shall have fulfilled that which is ordered so his soul may be saved on the Day of Judgment." Last week Archbishop Diaz brandished this monstrous threat at Mexican traitors to the Church. He declared liable to excommunication...
This sounded as if most of Mexico's Catholic population were in danger of being excommunicated but in fact no Mexican was last week excommunicated and avoided. To any such high threat of absolute wrath, the Church adds a sober, realistic rider. Last week Archbishop Diaz pardoned in advance Government employes who keep their jobs because they cannot find other work, parents who send their children to proscribed schools because the truant officer forces them to. The Church wants loyal Catholics but even more it wants live Catholics...