Word: rev
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Dates: during 1940-1940
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...pawn, a dean can check, sometimes stalemate a bishop. Bishop Manning, a High Churchman, and his Low-Church dean, Dr. Howard Chandler Robbins, frequently checked each other.* In 1929, Dean Robbins resigned, was succeeded by the Very Rev. Milo Hudson Gates, benevolent but bumbling. Last November Dean Gates died...
...Gravest present rift between a bishop and his dean is that of the Archbishop of Canterbury, Primate of All England, and the Very Rev. Hewlett Johnson, "Red Dean" of Canterbury, ardent Communist sympathizer. Like other deans, Dr. Johnson's main job is the care of his cathedral and its services. The Archbishop, who mortally hates & fears Communism, enters Canterbury Cathedral warily and as seldom as possible, last March got support from the cathedral chapter when five resident canons denounced the Dean's politics, dissociated themselves from...
...next morning the Washington was plowing northward through the fog to make a scheduled call at Galway, Eire. Below, 150 of her Catholic passengers were on their knees at early Mass conducted by the Rev. Henry D. Naber of Cincinnati when suddenly all the ship's sirens and alarms cut loose. As the consecration had just been reached, every Catholic remained kneeling until its conclusion. Then they joined other Washington passengers rushing in night clothes to the deck. From his cabin to the bridge hurried the Washington's worried captain, Harry Manning...
Fordham's President, the Very Rev. Robert I. Gannon, declared that his university was ready if necessary to "turn our campus into an armed camp...
Pius XII has kept strict silence about Italy's war activities. As during the Spanish War, some Italian prelates have not. Last week Most Rev. Evasio Colli, Bishop of Parma and head of the Central Bureau of Catholic Action, asked its members to pray God "so that He may bless our dear country and protect the sons of Italy who are fighting bravely. . . . Every one must perform with perfect discipline the duty assigned...