Word: archbishop
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...Moscow last week Izvestia attacked the Pope's appointment of 32 new cardinals as "the Vatican's new orientation in reactionary circles of other countries [and] part of a great political maneuver intended to improve the Vatican's position in the international arena." It said Archbishop Francis J. Spellman of New York, one of the 32, was carrying out the Vatican policy by "trying to persuade the American people to accept Franco...
Detroit's brainy, golf-playing, labor-minded Archbishop Edward Mooney was the first American to hold the high diplomatic post of Apostolic Delegate (to India and to Japan). He was elected chairman of the U.S. hierarchy's policy-making body, the National Catholic Welfare Conference, soon after his return to the U.S. in 1933-presumably at the Vatican's behest. He has made the N.C.W.C. a force to be reckoned with in U.S. life, from the movies and social welfare to education and political questions like the draft. He is reported once to have said: "If your...
Chicago's balding, scholarly Archbishop Samuel Alphonsus Stritch, N.C.W.C. vice-chairman, gave his apostolic benediction to a high-school group of Christmas carolers, said modestly: "It pleased me greatly that our Holy Father has so signally honored the archdiocese of Chicago. . . . The honor done to my person fills me with overwhelming gratitude." The Cardinal-designate, a builder as well as a scholar, at 58 has behind him. a long record of achievement: Bishop of Toledo at 34, Archbishop of Milwaukee, then of Chicago...
...fourth American Cardinal-designate, Irish-born, 83-year-old Archbishop John Joseph Glennon of St. Louis, is a great builder and money-raiser. Consecrated bishop in 1896, he is also dean of U.S. Catholic archbishops. He received the first news of his elevation before Sunday breakfast, when a local radio station phoned him. Then messages came from his old friends Baseball Fan Jim Farley and Archbishop Spellman, finally official notification from. Apostolic Delegate Cicognani. When he was sure, Cardinal-designate Glennon spoke like a loyal St. Louisan: "The Holy Father didn't forget St. Louis. . . . Our Catholic people show...
...prolific writer of prose and verse, Archbishop Spellman is also one of the world's highest paid (he gives the money to charities): he has made $250,000 from his writing in the last three years. Last year Good Housekeeping paid him the highest price ever paid for a single poem...