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SILENCE PLEASE-SERIOUS ILLNESS OF CARDINAL HINSLEY...
This sign on roads passing near a rambling house in rural Hertfordshire came down last week. Death came from a heart attack, at 77, to Arthur Cardinal Hinsley, Archbishop and Metropolitan of Westminster, spiritual leader of 2,400,000 Roman Catholics in England and Wales.* For the first time since the Reformation, Englishmen in general mourned the passing of a Roman Catholic Archbishop...
...Hinsley was England's only Cardinal. There are two others in the British Empire: MacRory of Ireland; Villeneuve of Quebec. Hinsley's death reduced the College of Cardinals (maximum 70) to an almost unprecedented low (49). Reason: the war has prevented many possible recipients of the red hat from traveling to the Vatican. Sometimes the Pope creates a Cardinal in petto (in the breast, i.e., he keeps it a secret until he wishes to announce it). Many American Catholics hope that Pius XII may have created New York's Archbishop Francis J. Spellman a Cardinal in petto...
Jubilee Coming. Almost blind, rather deaf, lanky, square-jawed Cardinal Hinsley was never well since he had a bout with paratyphoid in Africa a decade ago. Yet, despite recurring heart attacks, the prelate's seven years at Westminster were enormously active. When the late Pope Pius XI appointed Hinsley Archbishop in 1935 he was practically unknown in England. Son of a Yorkshire carpenter and an Irish mother, he had spent several quiet decades as a schoolmaster and rector of a London parish and Rome's English College. In 1926 he was consecrated a Bishop and sent to Africa...
...Cardinal Bourne, Archbishop of Westminster, died. Because the late King George V's jubilee was scheduled to take place shortly, Bourne's successor as Archbishop had to be selected quickly. When the choice fell on Hinsley he not only came out of retirement but also became a potent voice in the nation...