Word: detroit
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Edward Cardinal Mooney, 76, Archbishop of Detroit, died in Rome last week, and the U.S. lost one of the outstanding churchmen of his time...
...Mass of the Holy Spirit at St. Peter's, which preceded the conclave. Then, as he was resting after lunch, he collapsed with a heart attack. For years he had had a bad heart, in 1946 he had suffered a stroke; only last month he was hospitalized in Detroit for exhaustion and a general checkup. His U.S. colleagues, Cardinals Spellman and Mclntyre, reached his bedside in the North American College just after he died; saddened, they gave their dead friend absolution, and left almost immediately to take their places in the solemn procession of the cardinals into the conclave...
...became Detroit's first archbishop. Sharp, blunt-spoken Archbishop Mooney quickly established himself as a friend of labor and an opponent of Father Coughlin, the rabble-rousing radio priest, whom he muzzled in short order. Between 1935 and 1945, he served several terms as board chairman of the National Catholic Welfare Conference, the potent policy-forming association of bishops that acts as the primary voice of the church in the U.S. No one was surprised when Pope Pius XII gave Archbishop Mooney a red hat at the 1946 consistory. Under his leadership, the Catholic population of Detroit doubled-from...
Died. Edward Cardinal Mooney, 76, Archbishop of Detroit; of a heart attack; in Rome (see RELIGION...
...individualistic U.S. consumer demands a wide choice. But it is industry's own ads and competitive claims-linked with its passion for changing models yearly for the sake of change-that spur the public's appetite for variety and innovation. Says Art Sellgren, owner of a Detroit Buick agency: "The more choices people have, the more they want...