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...Although Cosmo Gordon Lang is second in command after King George V (titular head of the Church of England), William Temple, Archbishop of York and Primate of England, is a potent and virtually independent third. It would require a convocation of both archdioceses, such as met four years ago, to formulate such a new Office for the entire Church of England...
...Professor Hanna eventually dis proved those tenuous charges of modern ism. He obediently accepted the whole papal program. Pius X relented, made him auxiliary bishop of San Francisco and titular bishop of Titopolis (1912). A new Pope, Benedict XV, promoted the onetime suspect to the archiepiscopal throne...
Shorn Lambs. Founded 56 years ago, The Lambs Club (membership: 1,650.) traces a shadowy genealogy back to the congenial London circle which surrounded Authors Charles & Mary Lamb. Its present connotation is animalian, however, for among its titular governors are a Shepherd (President), a Boy (Vice President), Collies (Masters of the private Gambols). Most members are professionals, but there is a sprinkling recruited from the Army, the Navy, the Good Fellows. Acting Shepherd is Playwright Edwin Milton Royle (The Squaw Man, Launcelot and Elaine). Last week he and The Lambs Council were faced with the problem of raising enough ready...
...together. Shoulder to shoulder fought the witty, opportunist youngsters who follow David Lloyd George, and the grave, steady-going oldsters who, like Lord Grey, are chiefly composed of moral fibres. It seemed as if the old feud between the factions had been extinguished, as though Lloyd George's titular leadership of the party had been finally accepted by the old Asquith faction misnamed the "Liberal Council" and headed by Lord Grey. Then, last week, with spectacular abruptness. Grey of Fallodon calmly declared: "Things were said during the last election to the effect that our want of confidence...
...Vatican went Cardinal Hayes, to a private audience with the Pope. Then he visited his titular church, Santa Maria in Via, placed on the image of the Virgin of Sorrows a tiara "of imperial design," studded with precious gems, diamonds, rubies, pearls. The tiara was a gift from the Cardinal's parishioners...