Word: rev
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Dates: during 1940-1940
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...months the Most Rev. Francis Joseph Spellman, plump-faced, quick-smiling, and broadminded, has been Archbishop of 1,000,000 Roman Catholics in & around New York City. But not until last week did he attain the fullness of his ecclesiastical powers. Then a great throng of priests, bishops and Catholic laymen filled St. Patrick's Cathedral. Burly Denis Cardinal Dougherty of Philadelphia-substituting for Archbishop Spellman's onetime superior, ailing William Cardinal O'Connell of Boston-placed around the Archbishop's shoulders a narrow woolen band embroidered with crosses. It was a pallium, symbol...
...hour*-Bible stories, beginning with Adam & Eve. Mindful of the holy row churchmen kicked up the last time Adam & Eve were on the air-as performed by Don Ameche and Mae West-the sponsors hired not only Protestant Moffatt as supervisor, but also a Jesuit and a rabbi-the Rev. John La Farge, S. J. and Dr. Robert Gordis...
...Little Tui," the nephew, was Arthur Lee Kinsolving-son of a third clerical brother, the Rev. Arthur Barksdale Kinsolving, longtime rector of St. Paul's in Baltimore...
Princeton's Trinity is supposed to collaborate with the Procter Foundation, which maintains an Episcopal chaplain for the university. (The chaplaincy is to be vacated in June by the Rev. John Crocker, new rector of Groton School.) Of late years, Trinity's influence on both town & gown has waned. Thus the invitation which the Trinity vestry sent to Arthur Kinsolving this winter was a challenge. That he accepted it, putting aside the easy fame and popularity of Boston for the smaller prospects and pay of Princeton, may have been a surprise to those who take for granted...
...years ago the earthly heaven of that earthly little black "god," the Rev. Major J. ("Father") Divine, was enriched by two new angels, Verinda and Thomas Brown. As working Negroes go-they were cook & butler in Forest Hills, L. I.-the Browns were well heeled. Soon after they visited Father Divine's heaven at Sayville, L. I., confirming their angelic state by taking the names Rebecca Grace and Onward Universe, they forked out their savings, nearly $1,000. Onward Universe liked the porkchop heaven so well that he stayed put, while Rebecca Grace worked to send Father...