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...Died. Archbishop Gerald Patrick O'Hara, 68, Pennsylvania-born Roman Catholic delegate to Britain and longtime (1935-59) Bishop of Savannah, a liberal who was a leader in church efforts to improve U.S. race relations, went on to become one of the Vatican's most effective diplomats abroad, serving in Communist Rumania (from which he was expelled in 1950 on trumped-up charges), then as papal nuncio to Ireland before moving in 1954 to London; of a heart attack; in Wimbledon...
...Everhart's Archbishop of Canterbury does not seem religious (properly so, perhaps), but he injects a wonderful bit of humor into his long sophistry over the "Salique law" by following each occurrence of the word "daughter" with a "hmm?" Lester Rawlins makes a rich and colorful figure of the valorous Welsh captain Fluellen...
...there to celebrate was the most impressive gathering of Orthodox Christian leaders in the century. Athenagoras I, the Ecumenical Patriarch of Constantinople, and by virtue of that the spiritual leader of Orthodoxy, came from Istanbul. With him were the bearded Orthodox Patriarchs of Jerusalem, Rumania, Serbia and Bulgaria, the Archbishop of Athens and All Greece, and more than 100 prelates representing Orthodox churches of Russia, Czechoslovakia, the U.S., Cyprus, Poland, Finland, and all the Near East. Guests from other faiths included top U.S. Lutheran Franklin Clark Fry, Willem Visser 't Hooft of the World Council, Roman Catholic Benedictine monks...
Still, Orthodoxy shows plenty of spiritual vigor. Many churches in Russia are still crowded on Sundays and great feast days. In the U.S., membership in the dozen Orthodox churches has grown 35% in the past few years to almost 6,000,000 communicants, and Archbishop lakovos, head of the Greek Archdiocese of North and South Amer ica, predicts that the churches will federate within a few years. Even in far-off Uganda, Orthodox missionaries have since 1920 created a thriving, growing church with 20,000 members...
...with jeers and catcalls, he would advance with a sad smile on his pale face, hand half outstretched. Again and again, even lifelong Communists would find themselves kneeling to kiss the episcopal ring. He befriended Milan's business community, yet he was also known as "the workers' archbishop." On his visits to factories, mines and office buildings, he always carried a portable Mass-kit in a briefcase-looking so much like a banker that Milanese irreverently dubbed him "Jesus Christ's board chairman...