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He once entertained a delegation of visiting New York police by stalking into a tavern, miter and all, and ordering a round of beer for his guests; another time, after blessing the fishing fleet at Gloucester, he vaulted aboard one ship and asked the captain to sail him home to...
Although he celebrates Mass with lengthy reverence, Cushing has little use for the trappings of his office. He wears Jack Kennedy's dog tag (a gift from Jacqueline Kennedy), but rarely wears a pectoral cross: "I have crosses enough without carrying one adorned with jewels." Dressed in his red...
"Hozahner in Excelsis." Malicious rumor has it that some Boston confessors require penitents, as reparation for their sins, to sit through one of the cardinal's sermons, which seem to be measured in units of eternity rather than time. Millions of Americans caught their first glimpse of the Cushing...
A product of South Boston's melting pot ghetto, Cushing feels a Bostonian kinship to the Kennedys. The cardinal's father, after emigrating from County Cork in 1880, became a blacksmith for the old Boston Elevated. "We were ordinary people, but comfortable," Cushing recalls.
He attended public grammar schools, got his first taste of Catholic education when he entered the second-year class at the Jesuits' Boston College High School. "I was as rough as any of them, and they were pretty rough," the cardinal recalls. Actually, he seems to have been a...