Word: archbishop
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Cardinal Villeneuve, Archbishop of Quebec and top-ranking member of the Roman Catholic hierarchy in Canada, had suffered two heart attacks in six months. A fortnight ago he left Manhattan's Misericordia Hospital for California, hoping to convalesce in a convent at Alhambra. There, around 7 o'clock one morning last week, Msgr. Paul Nicole, the Cardinal's secretary, entered the prelate's room vested for Mass. The Cardinal was sitting before a small altar. The secretary finished the Introit (preliminary to Mass). Then the Cardinal interrupted...
...Born in Montreal, he was ordained a priest at 23. For the next 23 years he taught philosophy, morals, liturgy and canon law at the University of Ottawa. Then in 1930 he was named Bishop of Gravelbourg, Saskatchewan. A year and a half later he was made Archbishop of Quebec; hardly more than a year after that, a Cardinal. Never in Canadian ecclesiastical history had anyone risen from priest to Cardinal so fast...
...plane brought the Cardinal's body home, flags were at half-staff. In Quebec, Rodrigue Villeneuve, shoemaker's son, this week lay in state. In its own good time, Rome would select his successor. Canada's top Catholic prelate was now James Cardinal McGuigan, Archbishop of Toronto...
...Archbishop John J. Cantwell of Los Angeles warned Roman Catholics that they may not "with a free conscience" see Duel, It was "morally offensive and spiritually depressing." Another churchman deplored the "shouting piety" of Walter Huston playing the "Sin Killer." The city's Federation of Protestant Churches charged that "wrongdoing was shown to win every conflict with the right." The Catholic Tidings, describing Duel's heroine, Jennifer Jones, as "unduly if not indecently exposed," called the film "far worse, in a moral sense" than Howard Hughes's outlawed The Outlaw...
...Duel's grosses in Los Angeles were running some 25% better than Gone With the Wind, he was still undecided on the next move. "After all," he said hopefully, "the Legion of Decency hasn't even seen the picture and it isn't classified yet. The archbishop merely issued a warning...