Word: papally
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...first time Dom Carlos Duarte da Costa, onetime Bishop of Botucatu in Sao Paulo, had been in his church's black books. In 1934, he publicly refused to follow a papal nunciate's political instructions. He was thereupon quietly retired, given the honorary title of Bishop of Maura, no diocese. From the outside, Duarte took an increasingly critical view of what he considered his church's political leanings. He became increasingly outspoken and unpopular with his superiors...
Archbishop Francis Joseph Spellman of New York was the subject of the latest Roman rumor: he would be made a cardinal next fall, then papal Secretary of State. Archbishop Spellman served in the secretariat for seven years-two of them while Pope Pius XII was papal Secretary of State...
When the deep-chested young singer from County Limerick had finished his arias and folk songs, the room clattered with applause. Even hearty old Tenor (and Papal Count) John McCormack said of 23-year-old Singer Christopher ("Christy") Lynch: "He is the one most likely to succeed me. ... A very beautiful voice ... I have not heard better in a quarter of a century...
...considerable number of Protestants are suffering from an acute case of papal jitters. Last week 1,600 of them, including many prominent churchmen, issued a 450-word statement urging the Big Three to make no "deals" whatsoever with the Vatican. Said the statement : "Establishments of religion, however widely representative, however exalted, have no place at the council tables of the state. ... As a political power . . . the papacy has thrown its weight into the scales of the present human struggle on the side of the enemies of democracy. . . . We insist that a church which would link its destiny to that...
Other noteworthy Papal appointments last week...