Word: cardinale
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Short and amiably unprepossessing, the man who sat in the great episcopal throne of St. Patrick's Cathedral in 1939 was hardly the image of a bishop, let alone the archbishop of the vast Archdiocese of New York. "I shall pray as if everything depended upon God," he said...
The most significant aspect of his seven years in the Vatican was his friendship with Eugenio Cardinal Pacelli, later Pope Pius XII. No two men could have presented a greater contrast. Thin to the point of ascetism, Pacelli towered over Spellman, whose round, beaming face invariably drew the adjective "cherubic...
The New York hierarchy was stunned by the choice of a little-known outsider; Boston's William Cardinal O'Connell, who had never much appreciated his rising young assistant, was simply chagrined. "Francis," he said, "epitomizes what happens to a bookkeeper when you teach him how to read...
In doctrine, the cardinal was a conservative, though he loyally implemented changes in the liturgy when they were approved by the Vatican Council. He denounced from the pulpit movies that he considered immoral, opposed public aid for birth control as strenuously as he promoted public aid for parochial schools. In...
Some Roman Catholic prelates have done all they could to discourage U.S. circulation of the Dutch catechism (TIME, Aug. 18), a lively, undogmatic compendium of doctrine that reflects the most recent radical insights of theologians and scripture scholars. First the Roman Curia ordered a thorough study of the Dutch original...