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Under the wings of a U.S. Army transport Iran's high, hot plateau flowed past. In the wasteland below Special Passenger Francis Joseph Spellman, Archbishop of New York, Roman Catholic Military Vicar and unofficial envoy of the Vatican, lay tumbled the ruins of palaces built by ancient Persian conquerors; across it snaked a railway and motor road pulsing with Lend-Lease for Russia...
Showing none of the pardonable touchiness with which the Chinese, at times, protest their ability to get along without foreign help after the war, the Roman Catholic Bishop and Vicar Apostolic of Nanking, last week in Manhattan, outlined a plan of his own for recruiting that help on a grand scale. The plan: to set up employment bureaus in China, to which American teachers, doctors and technicians could apply...
Only the chubby little man knew what was. likely to await him when he left Madrid and flew, on to Italy, another Catholic country impoverished, embittered, corrupted by Fascism. He traveled as the Apostolic Vicar of Roman Catholic chaplains in the U.S. Army and Navy, and as the Archbishop of New York, wealthiest Catholic See in the world. More than that, he was as anti-Fascist as a Russian soldier, as American as ice cream...
Fastest-growing diocese in the whole Roman Catholic Church is the U.S. Diocese of the Army & Navy. Head of this world-sprawled See, with the title of Military Vicar, is New York's genial Archbishop Francis J. Spellman. Since he must shepherd over a million of the faithful in his own Archdiocese, the real work of the Army & Navy Diocese falls on his military delegate, lanky, Spanish-speaking Bishop John F. O'Hara, onetime president of Notre Dame. And Bishop O'Hara is so busy that last week the Pope gave him an assistant...
Father Magni had been chosen by the late leader (or "Black Pope") Father Wlodimir Ledochowski, who died last week (TIME, Dec. 21). He will serve as vicar general until after the war, when the 150 Jesuit fathers superior in all parts of the globe can meet to elect a new general. In selecting an old man for the interim Father Ledochowski followed good Jesuit tactics in uncertain times. Had he picked a younger candidate, the vicar general might have had time to entrench himself before the election could be held. By picking a man whose age will disqualify...