Word: cardinalate
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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From boyhood in his native Nashville, Tenn., Samuel Stritch led the way. He was only ten when he finished grammar school. At 16 he graduated with a B.A. from St. Gregory's Seminary in Cincinnati, was ordained a Roman Catholic priest at 22. When he was 34 he became...
Last March, still leading the way, the soft-voiced, blue-eyed man became the first American cardinal ever appointed to the powerful Roman Curia. But when he arrived in April to take up his duties as Proprefect of the Vatican's Sacred Congregation for the Propagation of the Faith...
Cardinal Stritch's death underlines a situation that many in the Vatican view as critically serious: the understanding of the church's administrative machinery caused by the Pope's delay in calling a consistory to fill out the College of Cardinals, now down to 55 from its...
Marcel Cardinal, an ex-commando captain, began underwater exploration out of curiosity, rapidly became an addict. He took to carrying a sketchbook with him to the Cannes beach, would plunge into the deep blue sea off the Côte d'Azur, then flipper to the surface to jot...
Russell Lee Swanson, an ex-G.I. with training at the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts and Merion, Pa.'s Barnes Foundation, started out as a science-fiction bug, was converted to the submarine world almost as soon as he donned his first face mask five years ago...