Word: revs
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...night. In 1932 the Congregation of Holy Cross accepted his vocation, sent him to Notre Dame. After eight years of near-top marks in college and seminary, he was finally ordained. Last week, from Manhattan's St. Patrick's Cathedral, where they had just heard the Rev. Daniel Maria Gleason, C.S.C., sing his first High Mass, trooped 3,500 blue-uniformed cops. At a Communion breakfast afterward they cheered wildly when Police Commissioner Lewis Joseph Valentine presented their ex-buddy with a gold chalice upon which shone a reproduction of his old shield...
...pawn, a dean can check, sometimes stalemate a bishop. Bishop Manning, a High Churchman, and his Low-Church dean, Dr. Howard Chandler Robbins, frequently checked each other.* In 1929, Dean Robbins resigned, was succeeded by the Very Rev. Milo Hudson Gates, benevolent but bumbling. Last November Dean Gates died...
...Gravest present rift between a bishop and his dean is that of the Archbishop of Canterbury, Primate of All England, and the Very Rev. Hewlett Johnson, "Red Dean" of Canterbury, ardent Communist sympathizer. Like other deans, Dr. Johnson's main job is the care of his cathedral and its services. The Archbishop, who mortally hates & fears Communism, enters Canterbury Cathedral warily and as seldom as possible, last March got support from the cathedral chapter when five resident canons denounced the Dean's politics, dissociated themselves from...
Fordham's President, the Very Rev. Robert I. Gannon, declared that his university was ready if necessary to "turn our campus into an armed camp...
Pius XII has kept strict silence about Italy's war activities. As during the Spanish War, some Italian prelates have not. Last week Most Rev. Evasio Colli, Bishop of Parma and head of the Central Bureau of Catholic Action, asked its members to pray God "so that He may bless our dear country and protect the sons of Italy who are fighting bravely. . . . Every one must perform with perfect discipline the duty assigned...