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Died. Rev. Conrad le Despenser Roden Noel, 73, vicar of Thaxted, England, whose crusty championship of Marxian socialism had made his modest Essex vicarage a center of political and ecclesiastical turmoil since his appointment in 1910. Known as "the Red vicar," Father Noel once flew a red flag from his steeple, during World War I hung the green banner of the Irish Sinn Fein party near his pulpit, refused to permit the British Union Jack in his church...
...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...
...Vicar was a popular man in Lambeth. A specialist in charity, he supplied needy parishioners with loans and groceries, took 1,500 slum children to the seaside every summer, opened two night shelters for homeless unfortunates. For them it was a pity when Crime Accountant Joseph Cook nabbed him on a wretchedly small irregularity of ?7, found his piteous appeals had netted the spanking sum of about ?150,000 in his 17 letter-writing years. Last week the hoary old rascal went to jail...
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...
...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...