Word: jerusalem
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...combat irreligion in Europe, to missionize in the East. From the Balkans to the Dead Sea they established their posts. Shrewd, they learned Oriental languages, heard confessions in German, Greek, Turkish. Some-times they adopted and altered slightly alien rituals to make their gospel first familiar, then embraced. In Jerusalem they erected the Hôtelrie de Notre Dame de France. Here in 1893 was held a Eucharistic Congress. In 1900, republican France accused the Assumptionist Fathers of royalist intrigues. Their schools were closed, their activities halted. They fled to Italy, Belgium. England, the U. S. Thus it came...
Since England's stern Reformation no English primate has ever set foot in Jerusalem.* A month ago the Archbishop an nounced that the Morgan yacht would take him to the Holy Land (TIME, March 25). In Palestine, the patriarchs of the Greek and Armenian Orthodox Churches announced that they would jubilantly wel come their British brother. Obviously in these celebrations the Roman Catholic Church would take no part, for the Pope, unlike the Orthodox patriarchs, does net recognize Anglican dignitaries...
Last week came sudden, potent news. The Archbishop announced that he would positively not journey to Jerusalem...
Immediately churchly rumormongers reported that the Pope had spoken to Mussolini, that he had spoken to England, and that an English potentate had "suggested" that the Corsair cancel its pilgrimage. The Pope, said rumormongers, did not want too great a rapprochement between Anglican and Orthodox Churches, preferring to see Jerusalem's present religious balance kept intact...
...Jerusalem there is an Anglican Bishop, the Rt. Rev. Rennie Maclnnes, but he is no primate. A primate is an Archbishop or a Bishop of a see which ranks first in a province. Jerusalem is an independent see under the Archbishop of Canterbury, primate of All England...