Word: stritch
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Last week, nearly a year after Bishop Edmund F. Gibbons banned church-sponsored "bingo" games in his Albany, N. Y. diocese (TIME, Dec. 21, 1936), a further reaction against such games of chance was noticeable in the Catholic Church. Archbishop Samuel Alphonsus Stritch of Milwaukee had put a ban upon all games in which money or the equivalent could be won. Bishop Henry Althoff of Belleville, Ill. not only forbade church gambling but voiced the hope that his people would support their churches by direct contribution rather than parish parties and festivals. Archbishop John Joseph Glennon of St. Louis condemned...
...Giovanni Cicognani. Apostolic Delegate to the U. S.; Cincinnati's gentle Archbishop McNicholas. Legion of Decency founder; St. Louis' stern-faced Archbishop Glennon; Santa Fe's church-building Archbishop Gerken; Rochester's Bishop Mooney, an archbishop without an archdiocese; St. Paul's plump Archbishop Murray; Milwaukee's scholarly Archbishop Stritch; San Antonio's Archbishop Drossaerts; San Francisco's lately-installed Archbishop Mitty; New Orleans' German-born Archbishop Rummel; Dubuque's tall Archbishop Beckman...
Inducted. Most Rev. Samuel Alphonsus Stritch, 43, onetime Bishop of Toledo; as Archbishop of Milwaukee, succeeding the late Archbishop Sebastian Gebhard Messmer...