Word: archbishops
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...unanimous votes the Senate and House of Mexico passed a law last week which was promptly denounced by the Most Reverend Pascual Diaz, Roman Catholic Archbishop of Mexico, as "an unheard of outrage of the public power against religion." The new law, unless vetoed by President Pascual Ortiz Rubio, will provide: 1) That no religious denomination shall have more than one clergyman per 50,000 population in either the Federal District of Mexico City (pop. 1,217,663) or the Territories of Lower California (pop. 94,469) and Quintana Roo (pop. 12,150). 2) That in the District and Territories...
...Most Rev. Cosmo Gordon Lang Archbishop of Canterbury admitted authorship of a "highly romantic" novel in his youth. Said he: "Nothing would induce me to reveal the name of that dreadful book [written under a pseudonym]. I had forgotten all about it until Hugh Walpole mentioned it before a meeting the other night...
...Regina last year and gave 24,000 Roman Catholics their own diocese of Gravelbourg, he chose as first bishop a 46-year-old priest named Jean Marie Rodrigue Villeneuve. Last week the Pope elevated Bishop Villeneuve from Gravelbourg to Quebec-a prodigious leap in the hierarchy, for the Archbishop of Quebec (most venerable see in North America) is traditionally made a Cardinal. Untraditionally youthful, Archbishop Villeneuve is regarded as certain to get, at the next papal consistory, the red hat of Quebec's late Felix Raymond Marie Cardinal Rouleau...
Born in Montreal, son of a French Canadian cobbler, Quebec's new Archbishop was ordained in Ottawa. He became superior of St. Joseph Scholasticate, where he taught philosophy, canonical law, moral theology. Vastly erudite, he taught also at the University of Ottawa, became dean of its theological faculty in 1929. Ottawa knew him as its "Good Father," a member of the Oblates of Mary Immaculate, founder of several houses of retreat, a tall, spare cleric who lends ascetic dignity to the affairs of his church...
Seven hundred odd years ago the Archbishop of Canterbury stood before the candies of an altar surrounded by a handful of gibbering, frightened monks. Within the great cathedral there was the silence of men in prayer; without the sound of strife and the muffled call of "Way for the King's men." With a sharp sound the doors swung back and men spilled through on to the stone floor. The monks gave a frightened glance, and beseeching their master to follow ran hastily away. The Archbishop went forward to meet the knights alone, accompanied by one faithful. "Where is Thomas...