Word: bishops
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...climb, which was led by Hassler Whitney, assistant professor of Mathematics, was to train new men in rope and rock technique. C. Stacy French, Austin Teaching Fellow in Biochemistry in the Medical School, accompanied the group. Among those who made the trip besides Whitney and French, were: Bishop, Cobb, Geist, Hinton, Marvin, Meigs, Notman, Overton, Sachs, and Smith...
...Nazi Germany's war on the Roman Catholic Church, Catholicism's most experienced critic of Nazi ideology is Michael Cardinal von Faulhaber, Archbishop of Munich. In practical dealings with Nazis no German prelate is more adroit than the noble Bishop of Münster, the Most Rev. Clemens August Count von Galen. Example: When Bishop Galen lately preached in his cathedral on the Church's role in the education of youth, a uniformed Nazi leaped up to shout: "How can anybody talk about youth if he himself has neither wife nor child...
Quick as a flash the bishop thundered: "In this house I will allow no offensive remarks against the Führer!" Good Catholics in the congregation beamed admiration at this neat reference to Bachelor Hitler, and the Nazi flushed, sat down...
Last week Bishop Galen was visiting in Rome. Five days before the Austrian plebiscite (see p. 23), he was drafted by the Holy See to do a diplomatic job of work on a colleague-Theodor Cardinal Innitzer, Archbishop of Vienna. Cardinal Innitzer and the Austrian bishops had admonished Austrian Catholics to vote Ja in the plebiscite, had subscribed that admonition with a fervent "Heil Hitler" (TIME, April 11). The Pope summoned Cardinal Innitzer to the Vatican for an explanation...
...informed Arnaldo Cortesi of the New York Times as "very stormy." Cardinal Innitzer rested his case upon oral guarantees made to him by Reichsführer Hitler and Field Marshal Göring. These guarantees were rejected as insufficient by Cardinal Pacelli, who thereupon turned Cardinal Innitzer over to Bishop Galen. So convincing was the Bishop of Münster's tale of broken Nazi promises that the Viennese was reported "very much impressed" before he arrived at the Holy Father's door for a two-hour audience...