Word: bishops
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...tell you of one of the cases which has moved me to deep indignation. A year or so ago in one of our Western dioceses a priest died. He was a man of more than average ability, a scholarly man, appointed by his bishop to serve as an examining chaplain ... He retired in poor health at 68 and in a few months died. Our rich, generous and purportedly Christian Church granted his widow a pension of $27.60 per month . . . Our Episcopal Church tells the widow of a priest to live on $6.50 per week ... on less than...
...German churchman jangled the Nazis' nerves more successfully than bald, goateed little Dr. Friedrich Otto Dibelius, a Lutheran. Since the war, as Bishop of Berlin and Brandenburg, Dr. Dibelius' alert, twinkling-eyed integrity has proved almost equally galling to the Russian occupation authorities, in whose zone his church is located. To register their tacit support of his undercover battle, the Evangelical Church in Germany in its first official meeting this year elected him chairman (TIME...
...Worry. Last week Bishop Dibelius delivered the most ringing condemnation of the Soviet zone's Communist regime that had been made by any churchman in eastern Germany since the war. Wrote he in a Whitsuntide pastoral letter...
...pilgrims had come from all over the world. Aloof, tight-lipped Bishop Giuseppe López Ortiz of Tuy in western Spain headed a delegation of 35 from the saint's own country. There were Germans, French, Italians, Filipinos, Irish, Canadians and one priest from India. In the U.S. delegation was energetic, ruddy Most Rev. Thomas J. McDonnell, Auxiliary Bishop of New York. The Japanese turned out in crowds that jammed streets, parks and station platforms. Non-Christians sang hymns along with their shinja (believer) brothers. Pious deputations waited at railway stations until late at night to catch...
From Lodge's own Class of 1924, which is celebrating its twenty-fifth reunion, come the Rev. Russell Sturgis Hubbard, Episcopal bishop of Detroit; Charles Poletti, former lieutenant governor of New York; Judge Peter Woodbury of the United States Court of Appeals; novelists Oliver LaFarge and F. Van Wyck Mason; Editor William L. White of the Emporia (Kans.) Gazette; and Earl L. Brown of Life Magazine...