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...young coadjutor bishop in Pittsburgh, Archbishop John F. Dearden of Detroit earned the nickname "Iron John" for his firm administrative style. Last week Iron John Dearden, one of four new American cardinals chosen by the Pope, proved that he is a man of much more flexible steel. He approved a long list of recommendations, put forward by a lay-dominated synod, that makes Detroit a model of democratically guided reform in the post-Vatican II church...
...only outright progressive among the new cardinals, Detroit's John F. Dearden, has encouraged widespread lay participation in the internal affairs of his big archdiocese, and has been remarkably successful as president of the National Conference of Catholic Bishops in the U.S. Pittsburgh's Bishop John J. Wright, one of the most articulate theologians in the U.S. hierarchy, played a significant role in shaping several documents of Vatican II. He will return to Rome to an as yet unannounced post in the Curia...
Churchly speculation on who would succeed the late Francis Cardinal Spellman as Roman Catholic Archbishop of New York mostly centered on familiar names. Rochester's Bishop Fulton J. Sheen was one much talked-about candidate; so was Detroit's Archbishop John Dearden, head of the national conference of U.S. bishops. Last week Pope Paul confounded all handicappers by naming as head of the nation's richest and most prestigious archdiocese a young and virtually unknown prelate: the Most Rev. Terence James Cooke, 47, one of New York's twelve auxiliary bishops...
...Cardinal McIntyre has yet to make a move toward creating a council. In Washington, D.C., the priest-senators are reluctant to speak up before conservative Patrick Cardinal O'Boyle, who sits in on the bimonthly meetings. Detroit's senate, though it enjoys the encouragement of Archbishop John Dearden, is troubled by dissension between old and young clerics, with the former accusing Dearden of favoring the latter...
...Among bishops most prominently mentioned as his successor: John F. Dearden of Detroit; Francis F. Reh, head of the North American College in Rome; Fulton J. Sheen of Rochester; John J. Maguire, the temporary administrator of the New York archdiocese; John J. Wright of Pittsburgh...