Religion: New Archbishop

A Liverpool van-man's son this week ascended to the highest post in Britain's Roman Catholic hierarchy. Dr. William Godfrey, 67, was enthroned as Archbishop of Westminster, thus is just about certain to become a cardinal at the next consistory.

Pianoplaying, sports-loving Archbishop Godfrey is the very model of a modern British divine. As a small boy in a working-class district, he pointed early for the priesthood. "I never considered anything else seriously," he says. He went then to Ushaw College, a Catholic seminary in northern England, afterwards to the English College in Rome....

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