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...sermon after being enthroned as Archbishop of Westminster, Monsignor Bernard Griffin, Primate of English Ro-man Catholics, told the international congregation in jampacked Westminster Cathedral that easy divorce, birth control, books and films that sneer at the sanctity of marriage, are all signposts along the road to ruin. Said he: "The decline of a nation has always begun with the disintegration of the family...
Cardinal Kinsley, Britain's only Cardinal and the Archbishop of Westminster, died last winter (TIME, March 29). Last week Pope Pius XII appointed his successor: 44-year-old Monsignor Bernard Griffin, Auxiliary (assistant) Bishop of Birmingham. The little-known prelate will be the leader of England's and Wales's 2,400,000 Roman Catholics. The appointment was also tantamount to telling Mgr. Griffin that he will some day get a Cardinal...
...Roman Catholics in the U.S. Archbishop Spellman is also Military Vicar of the Armed Forces, an ecclesiastical but not a military title. But Army Chief of Chaplains, Brigadier General William R. Arnold, is a Roman Catholic Monsignor...
Notices had gone out that stocky, greying Monsignor Miguel de Andrea, Argentina's popular Bishop of Temnos, would open the meeting of the National Academy of Moral Sciences and Politics in Buenos Aires' plush Teatro Colon. Then everyone remembered that Monsignor Andrea was a liberal; in his youth he had even led a fisherman's strike. Like a pampas fire, word spread that the Bishop would discourse on liberty and the people's right to elect their own authorities...
...Monsignor Andrea's words were calm, dignified, nonrevolutionary. But they ranged a distinguished churchman with students, professors, workers and other civilians in a mounting popular protest against a mounting rightist dictatorship. "To dominate slaves," exhorted the Bishop, "is doubly ignoble; to reign over the free is doubly glorious! Your Excellency, Señor Presidente: let your authority be the guaranty of our liberty...