Word: cardinalate
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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But The House, founded in 1525 by Cardinal Wolsey and later called Aedes Christi (House of Christ), is perhaps Oxford's best-known college. It is famed among Oxonians for the university's richest undergraduates, among tourists for its magnificent hall and spacious quadrangle. As dean, Dr. Simpson...
Died. Crisanto Cardinal Luque, 70, aggressive, socially conscious Roman Catholic cardinal, first to be named in Colombia, who acidly attacked and helped unseat Colombia's corrupt Dictator Gustavo Rojas Pinilla (1953-57); of a lung hemorrhage; in Bogotá, Colombia.
Died. Georges Cardinal Grente, 86, one of France's eight cardinals, member of the French Academy, author (The Life and Passion of Jeanne d'Arc), worker in the French Resistance movement in World War II; of influenza; in Le Mans, France, where he served as archbishop.
This week, as Francis Joseph Cardinal Spellman celebrated his 70th birthday and his 20th anniversary as New York's archbishop, he could look the length and breadth of his see for some remarkable achievements. During the last two decades, the Catholic population of the New York archdiocese (including Manhattan...
Up for election to the august French Academy, established 325 years ago by Cardinal Richelieu to safeguard the purity of the French language, was Novelist Paul (Ouvert la Nuit) Morand. At 70 he was suitably ancient, with his Scott Fitzgeraldish novels of the '20s had more claim to literary...