Word: cardinale
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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The speaker defending Jackie Kennedy's marriage to Aristotle Onassis was no gossip columnist or pundit-indeed, few society reporters were so disposed. He was Richard Cardinal Cushing, Archbishop of Boston, Prince of the Holy Roman Church and-as it turned out last week-foremost a friend in need...
The cardinal made his defense of Jackie at a meeting of Boston's Caritas Guild, composed of the city's licensed beverage executives, and he chose that platform to stress caritas-charity. As Cushing knows, it is one of the most elusive of virtues. Two days after his...
Richard Cardinal Cushing, Archbishop of Boston, said yesterday that he will offer his resignation to the Pope, effective this year, because of the abuse and criticism he has received for defending Jacqueline Kennedy's marriage to Aristotle Onassis.
The Cardinal had previously planned to resign in 1970, when he will be 75-years-old. In recent years the pope has encouraged older cardinals to resign so that younger men may assume the posts.
When Cushing resigns as cardinal, it is likely that he will go to Latin America as an ordinary missionary-priest--a desire which he has often voiced in the past.