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DIED. Alfred Cardinal Bengsch, 58, Bishop of Berlin-both East and West-and leader of East Germany's 1.2 million Roman Catholics; of a hemorrhage during treatment for cancer; in East Berlin. The son of a Berlin postal official, Bengsch was named bishop of the divided city and its environs in August 1961, three days after the erection of the Berlin Wall. A conservative theologian who steered clear of politics, he was given special permission by East German authorities to cross the Wall three days a month to minister to his West Berlin flock; later he was allowed...
...call for "victory" in Viet Nam, Cooke replied: "I think what the Cardinal meant by victory was a quick peace." Chances are the new archbishop will become a cardinal at the next consistory, which will probably make him the second youngest member of the present Sacred College (Alfred Cardinal Bengsch of Berlin is five months younger). At his press conference, when asked about his youth, Cooke said: "I am sorry for that. You will all have to wait until I grow up a little...
...having cardinals-were elevated to the purple, along with 14 Vatican diplomats and curial officials. Archbishop Justinus Darmajuwana, 52, of Semarang, becomes the first Indonesian to sit in the college; German-born Archbishop Jose Clemente Maurer, 67, of Sucre will be the first Bolivian. Berlin's Archbishop Alfred Bengsch, who by choice lives in the Eastern sector of the divided city, will be, at 45, the youngest cardinal...
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