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Most Rev. Arthur Hinsley, 72, Archbishop of Westminster. Primate of 2,300,000 British Catholics. Since Pope Pius IX, in 1850, re-established the often suppressed British hierarchy, under Nicholas Patrick Stephen Cardinal Wiseman, the see of Westminster has traditionally been entitled to a cardinal. But Archbishop Hinsley, soon after his appointment to succeed the late Francis Cardinal Bourne in 1935, embarrassed the Church by his statements during the Italo-Ethiopian war. Replying energetically to the anti-Italian attacks of the Archbishop of Canterbury, the Archbishop of Westminster announced that the Pope was powerless to intervene in the war because...
...nothing of hordes of British priests, journeyed last week to Vatican City. Not in years of Cook's Tours had the Romans seen so many Inglesi at one time-in all, 7,000 pilgrims, at whose head was no less a personage than Most Rev. Arthur Hinsley, 70, the son of a Yorkshire joiner, who last month succeeded the late Francis Cardinal Bourne as Archbishop of Westminster and Primate of 2,200,000 British Catholics. What brought Archbishop Hinsley and his flock to Rome was the impending canonization of Sir Thomas More and John Cardinal Fisher, first Englishmen...