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Besides Bishop Manning, there are two other active diocesan bishops of retirement age: Bishop James DeWolf Perry of Rhode Island (72), Bishop John Chanler White of Springfield, Ill. (76). By last week Bishop White had also swung into action. "It is an 'ex post facto' law," he cried. "They cannot pass a law compelling me to retire. Neither Bishop Manning, Bishop Perry nor I contemplate retiring." Neither could the ruling be repealed - at least for five years. But a repeal can be started at the next General Convention, which will meet in 1946 in San Francisco...
Tall, 63-year-old Dr. Newton had high blood pressure. Doctors had given him his choice. He might run his column or his parish (St. Luke and the Epiphany) but not both. He chose the parish, which he took over in 1938 just as Diocesan officials were about to close it as rundown...
...faculty of Robert Maynard Hutchins' University of Chicago. This would hardly relieve the pain of Notre Dame's president, Father Hugh O'Donnell. He got protests against his dismissal of McMahon from 29 Notre Dame facultymen, the Florida Catholic and other diocesan papers, U.S. philosophers...
Other Churchmen warned of the "moral risk," spoke of the "sense of surprise and regret." The Evangelist, Albany's diocesan weekly, said: "The bombing . . . smells to heaven as an act of vandalism...
...third-ranking prelate, the Bishop of London. Dr. Geoffrey Francis Fisher let it be known that he, too, had begun negotiations with the commissioners to halve his own salary ($40,000), revamp ancient 44-room Fulham Palace, keep a few rooms for himself, turn the rest into a diocesan hostel...