Word: heenan
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When John Cardinal Heenan, leader of 4.1 million Roman Catholics in England and Wales, died last November, church watchers and the oddsmakers at Ladbroke's began guessing which of the realm's 18 bishops would replace him. Last week Pope Paul VI provided the answer: none of them. He bypassed the entire hierarchy and appointed instead tall, white-haired Dom George Basil Hume, 52, abbot of the Benedictine monastery at Ampleforth in Yorkshire. Hume is the first monk to become Archbishop of Westminster since England in 1850 permitted the restoration of the Catholic hierarchy...
These qualities apparently include a reputation for scholarship, in addition to administrative acumen-in Hume's case, earned in the limited sphere of Ampleforth. There he has headed since 1963 a community of 130 scholastics, as well as a distinguished boarding school. While Heenan and most of the other bishops have been ethnic Irish, Hume is an upper-middle-class Englishman with useful Establishment connections. No bookworm, he is also a fitness buff devoted to jogging and squash...
Died. John Carmel Cardinal Heenan, 70, Archbishop of Westminster and Roman Catholic Primate of England; following a heart attack; in London. Heenan spent 16 years as a parish priest in a crowded East London district before becoming Bishop of Leeds in 1951, where he continued to perform the duties of parish priest and lived among the workers. Named Archbishop of Westminster in 1963 and cardinal two years later, Heenan became leader of 4 million Roman Catholics in England and Wales...
...from home to a band practice; his body, with bullet wounds in the head, was later found five miles out of Belfast. Another Catholic, Gabriel Savage, 17, was pulled from his girl friend's arms at a shopping center and driven off to his death. Paddy Heenan, 50, was on a bus destroyed by a grenade as it drove through a mixed neighborhood. Two gunmen entered a paint store, lined up the employees, singled out James Greer, 21, a Protestant, and shot him. Another man, hooded and shot, was discovered in a parked...
...unity, Protestants and Roman Catholics, Tories, Laborites and Liberals gathered last week at London's Westminster Cathedral to pray at an "ecumenical service for intercession for Northern Ireland." More than 1,500 worshipers attended the ceremony at which the Archbishop of Canterbury, who presided with John Cardinal Heenan, praised Ireland's patron, Saint Patrick, as a man of forgiveness...