Word: chaplain
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Unfortunate Custom." The bishopric of Fulham began in the days of Charles I, when a lonely chaplain in charge of the small English community at Ghent asked the Bishop of London to lighten his solitude and brighten his prestige by sending a bishop out for an occasional visit. The Bishop of London responded by creating the first Bishop of Fulham. Technically, the bishop has no diocese, but acts as administrator for North and Central Europe, which is still a suffragan bishopric of London...
...hearty Rt. Rev. Basil Batty, who found the job "hard work, but very pleasant." Lately, however, the going has been tough. In a plane from Moscow recently he found the stratosphere too much for his 74 years and resigned in favor of 67-year-old Youngster Selwyn, an ex-chaplain...
Born in Palestine and schooled in Manhattan, Chaplain Abramowitz has seen his people's problems in several lights. The knotty decisions his position forces him to make weigh heavily on his inexperienced shoulders. Last week, doing the best he knew how, he had taken a firm stand and was defending it with dignity...
...young chaplain has another hard responsibility which he considers a corollary of his first one. Under the Army's relaxed rules for U.S.-German marriages, a G.I. must first get a chaplain's sanction...
...open to the charge that he is merely inverting Nazi racial prejudice-Rabbi Abramowitz does not ban marriages outright. "I don't want to decide on another fellow's life," he says. After talking it over with the couple, he advises them to seek out some other chaplain who will grant permission-if one can be found...