Word: cassocks
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Father. An Irishman, handsome as he is unmistakable, Father Finn rehearses his chorus in a polo shirt instead of a cassock, and can spur a choir boy to a Palestrinian high E with a flick of the eyebrow. Born 62 years ago in Boston, he became organist there at the Carmelite Monastery as a child. He began conducting Palestrina in Chicago's old St. Mary's Church in 1904, a year before he was ordained. "I was 25 years trying to find out how to conduct it," he says. In the meantime his Paulist Choristers became world famous...
...airplane in Moscow last Sunday stepped a benign ecclesiastic in a purple cassock and cap. He was Britain's No. 2 primate, Dr. Cyril Forster Garbett, Archbishop of York. He came to visit Patriarch Sergius, Metropolitan of All Russia, a fortnight after Joseph Stalin had given his blessing to the Russian Orthodox Church (TIME, Sept. 13), a few days after the 76-year-old Patriarch had been enthroned in his jampacked Cathedral with Ritualistic pomp not seen in Russia since the Bolshevik revolution. Following his enthronement, the Metropolitan blessed the Soviet Government (whose members, like all Communists, are atheists...
...sailor wasn't really planning to kill Father Joyce when he stood him up at ten paces on Sancian Island; it was just a game when he put a bullet through his cassock. But the missionary from Maryknoll thought his last moment was at hand. Now he knows how he will act if martyrdom really comes to him. He tried to look unconcerned, and he prayed. Not until hours later did he realize, "quite mortified," that he had said the grace before meals instead of the Act of Contrition...
...blitz last May, Canon Barry's house in the adjoining cloister was completely burned and he lost all he owned except what he had on. Up all night putting out other fires, he had to go to Oxford next morning to deliver a lecture with nothing but a cassock to hide the battered pair of flannel trousers ("Oxford bags") he had worn firefighting. Afterwards he went into an Oxford shop to buy a more respectable pair of pants. The proprietor looked at him disdainfully: "Don't you realize there is a war on?" "Yes," said Dr. Barry...