Word: cardinale
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Philadelphia: The Crusher A lackluster machine politician before the 1967 campaign began, Philadelphia's Mayor James Tate had both luck and organized labor on his side when election day rolled around. By chance, he had been in Tel Aviv during the six-day Arab-Israeli war last June; later...
"If the Gospel must be proclaimed to all men, it is directed first of all to the poor in spirit." So saying, Paul-Emile Cardinal Léger, 63, the Roman Catholic Archbishop of Montreal, last week announced that he will leave his see next month to become "a simple...
One of the church's most consistently reform-minded prelates, urbane, witty Cardinal Léger grew up in the Quebec village of St. Anicet, and was rector of the Canadian College in Rome before being elected Archbishop of Montreal in 1950. Pope Pius XII named him a cardinal...
Léger believes that if Christianity is to mean anything to man today, it must strive to narrow the gulf between the "silent suffering" in underdeveloped lands and the affluence of "Technocratic, sophisticated civilization." He expressed the hope that "those who may not understand my words may be touched...
Died. Maximos IV Cardinal Sayegh, 89, Patriarch of Antioch and leader of Roman Catholicism's Eastern Melchite Rite; of cancer; in Beirut. One of the fathers of Vatican II, the outspoken patriarch stirred the Council by urging a college of bishops to advise the Pope, an idea that was...