Word: bishops
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Bishop of Stortford, who denounces Cocktail Time ("obscene, immoral, shocking, impure, corrupt, shameless, graceless and depraved") from the pulpit of Belgravia's St. Jude the Resilient. "All over the sacred edifice you could see eager men jotting the name down on their shirt cuffs...
...Pseudo scientists" are trying to "frighten" humanity by exaggerating the threat of overpopulation, charged the Most Rev. Joseph A. Burke, Bishop of Buffalo, but Catholic ears should remain deaf to such fears. "If we have faith in God, he will not punish those who follow his command to be fruitful, multiply and fill the earth...
...Archbishop also had defenders. "In an evil world, war can be the lesser of the two evils," said Dr. Christopher M. Chavasse, Britain's Bishop of Rochester. Other churchmen agreed...
Ever since his installation in 1947, Bishop Pierre Marie Théas of Tarbes and Lourdes has battled Lourdes' trashy commercialism. "I am not the bishop of Babylon," he said. He removed hundreds of crutches that once littered the Grotto and restored much of the cave's original rocky austerity. Last week Bishop Theas struck hard at the exploiters of the Grotto's waters. His edict: "In no manner must it be commercialized. The Grotto water is foredestined to be drunk and to be washed in. It can be so used at Lourdes or at home...
...Collusion. But outside the shrine's gates, the bishop has no power. "He is not master of the situation," admitted Father Emile Gabel, secretary of Lourdes International Information Center, and added that despite constant allegations in the anticlerical press that the church gets a rake-off from Lourdes merchants, "there is absolutely no collusion between the bishop and the city." (The church's only income from the shrine: $500,000 yearly from Grotto collection boxes and sale of religious books, all used to maintain the buildings.) As for the pious objects, "we cannot suppress bad taste," said Father...