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...Governor-General, who for two years acted as King George's personal representative and Lord High Commissioner to the Assembly of the Church of Scotland (TIME, June 5, 1933), quotes as his best joke what was said by a sturdy churchman in bitter-end objection to the union of the Scottish churches: "It is unconstitutional. It is impractical. It is illogical and absolutely idiotic! But I hae no doot it is God's will...
Died. Rt. Rev. Thomas Frank Gailor, 79, well-beloved Episcopal Bishop of Tennessee, onetime (1919-25) Presiding Bishop; chancellor of the University of the South (Sewanee); after long illness; in Sewanee. A courageous, quick-witted broad-churchman, he was one of Tennessee's two outstanding citizens (the other: Cordell Hull). Rt. Rev. James Matthew Maxon, 60, hardworking, cigar-smoking Bishop Coadjutor, automatically succeeds...
...Unanimously the other Protestant directors chose Father Stevens to succeed him. Last week he accepted, aware that only nominally would he fill the unprecedented role of banker-priest. His term expires in four months; his only duties are to sign papers, attend meetings. Said he: "I'm a churchman, and not a banker. They simply asked me to serve, so I'm going to serve." When the newspapers began publicizing him, Banker Stevens closeted himself, threatened to resign if the "hounding" continued. Presidency of the bank is unnecessary to make Father Stevens Ticonderoga's No. 1 citizen...
...presence of Cardinal Hayes last week they took care to pull their mantellettas over their lace tunics. Reason: these symbols of their jurisdiction were nullified by the presence of the representative of the supreme jurisdiction of the Pope. Thus complete was the honor given last week to a churchman who says with Christian pride: "I was born very humble...
...Catholic University in Washington. After ordination in 1892 his rise in his church was rapid. A priest who never had a parish of his own, he began as assistant to Monsignor John Farley. When Monsignor Farley became auxiliary bishop, Father Hayes became his secretary. As the older churchman became bishop, archbishop and second cardinal of New York, the younger one followed along as chancellor, monsignor, auxiliary bishop. During the War Bishop Hayes was head of all U. S. Catholic chaplains. Year after Cardinal Farley's death in 1918, Patrick Hayes was made an arch bishop. Had not an angry Irish...