Word: archbishops
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Said Mexico's Big Boss, onetime President Plutarco Elias Calles: "I regard the expulsion of archbishops and bishops as necessary. . . . They are organizing in preparation for a movement'' (i. e. revolution). Back cracked Monsignor Pascual Diaz, Archbishop of Mexico, that the clergy were doing no such thing, but that Catholics must make every effort within the law "to preserve the immutable principles of justice and morality...
Father Kenny said that so long as the Cristeros (religious opposition) are without arms "the situation is hopeless." Nevertheless all the Cristeros have not lost hope. In Mexico City 40,000 Catholics blocked traffic for hours in "mute protest" against persecution of their Archbishop. In Magdalena, after local officials seized a 150-year-old statue of San Francisco Xavier, patron of the district, they gathered angrily in such numbers that troops were called to watch them...
...many an Anglo-Catholic desires an archbishop simply for the dignity and exaltation of the Church. However exalted it might be inwardly, the Church would nevertheless be obliged to accept the outward trappings of an archbishop-call him "Your Grace," give him a primatial cross, add a ten-tasseled heraldic hat and pallium to the insignia of his see, surround him with ten deacons of honor, swing a censer nine times at him in church and officially call him "Most Reverend" instead of "Right Reverend"-the last a practice which Anglo-Catholics long ago adopted...
Chief objection to all this was stated by Dr. John R. Crosby in the Churchman. His main point: that unless the Episcopal Church sets up a true archbishopric it erects "a bedizened scarecrow that will be the laughing stock of every church in Christendom." And a true archbishop would wield powers which many a U. S. bishop would be loath to give...
Nevertheless if the Episcopal Church overrides such objections and makes an archbishop of James De Wolf Perry it will be because he is in many ways the man for the job. Rich, tactful and diplomatic, he is a true scholar whose great specialty has been Church Unity and who has been neither too downright Catholic for the Protestants nor too thoroughgoingly Protestant for the Catholics. He has a background such as might at once lend to a U. S. Archbishopric the character acquired by the Anglican ones through the centuries. He has a home in Providence full of antiques...