Word: vicars
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Reverend Harry Clapham, Vicar of blitzed St. Thomas' in cockney Lambeth, could "make a luvely sermon-make yer cry if 'e wanted to." He could write lovely letters, too: he liked writing them so well that he sent out 7,750,000 in 17 years. For the venerable, frosty-powed Vicar had made a juicy discovery: the world was wondrously full of charitable persons whose hearts and pocketbooks bled at letters of appeal, and who made no importunate inquiries as to what became of the money. So the methodical Vicar compiled his own card-indexed list containing...
Present head of Maryknoll is slight, twinkling-eyed Bishop James Edward Walsh, who entered Maryknoll its first year and was in the first overseas contingent. He became U.S. Catholicism's first missionary bishop in 1927, when he was consecrated vicar apostolic of Kongmoon. With 18 years' experience in China, including the anti-foreign riots of the '20s, Bishop Walsh says: "We have already faced more critical moments in the past few years than anything we anticipate from the present war. . . . Maryknoll missioners are staying where they are and doing what they...
...Lang even stood up to Queen Victoria. While he was vicar of Portsea, the largest parish in England, with twelve curates under him, she told him a good wife would be more help than any six curates. "If I have a curate I do not like," he replied, "I can sack him. But I couldn't sack a wife." Forty years later his views on sacking a husband cost Victoria's great grandson the throne...
...curate in grimy industrial Leeds, young Cosmo Lang slept in a condemned tenement on a board bed only two feet wide, ministered to people even poorer than himself. But promotion came to the shrewd young man: as an Oxford don, vicar of Portsea and, in 1901, Bishop of London's East End diocese of Stepney. In 1908 the Archbishop of York died, and at 44 Lang was appointed Europe's youngest archbishop...
Slight, deaf, intense Bishop Barry knows his wars. A winner of the D.S.O. for heroism as a chaplain in World War I, he has since served as Archdeacon of Egypt, Chaplain to the King, Canon of Westminster, and Vicar of the University Church at Oxford, which he packed with undergraduates as it had never been packed before-even by John Henry (later Cardinal) Newman. No stuffed shirt, he lists his recreations in Who's Who as "indescribable...