Word: churchmanly
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...signed on behalf of the Bench of Bishops was no habitual appeaser. He was Archbishop Joseph Grosz of Kalocsa, a 63-year-old churchman whose character and courage are above question. When in 1945 Nazi bullies broke into his palace at Kalocsa and ordered him with drawn machine guns to get out of town, said Grosz: "I can face any kind of machine gun and if necessary I can even die at this desk." The Nazis left and the archbishop stayed...
...books won him a reputation as "the most formidable literary dean since Swift." Last week, 16 years and eight books after his retirement, it was evident that 90-year-old Dean Inge had not yet run out of ammunition. In Cambridge for a meeting of Britain's Modern Churchman's Conference, the Gloomy Dean loaded up again and started firing in all directions...
These clashing points of view were summed up by an impartial churchman: "It is a question of emphasis. One faction says that we must teach people how to say their prayers, but we must also see that they have good working conditions and have a just deal. The other faction says that if you emphasize the working conditions and the just deal too much, you're tackling a problem which will never be entirely solved, and people may forget how to say their prayers. If you fight Communism, which talks about a heaven on earth, just by saying...
...Bernard Iddings Bell, Canon of Christian Education in the Protestant Episcopal Diocese of Chicago, serves his God with a tough mind and a sharp tongue. Last week, in the unofficial Episcopal weekly, the Witness, High Churchman Bell was in top form at his favorite sport-mussing up ecclesiastical stuffed shirts...
...Pugmire turned it down; his heart, strained by years of work, travel and dedication, was not up to the job, which went to Albert W. T. Orsborn, son-in-law of the late General Higgins. Pugmire became commissioner of the U.S. Vested with more authority than any other U.S. churchman-his command over his four territories is absolute-he is still a diligent, humble...