Word: mcgucken
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...holders eventually "convert the bonds into donations." Others insist on more businesslike borrowing from banks or from such church-sponsored agencies as the $100 million American Baptist Extension Corp. Roman Catholics favor blunt fund-raising campaigns to finance major building programs. In the fall of 1962, Archbishop Joseph T. McGucken began a $15,500,000 campaign, partly to pay for a new cathedral in San Francisco to replace the one that burned. He had no trouble raising the amount in seven months, with some donations of as much...
Some of the open, worshipful recognition of God was visible in news stories across the U.S. In San Francisco, after St. Mary's Cathedral had been destroyed by fire. Archbishop Joseph McGucken asked the 750,000 Roman Catholics in his diocese "for prayers of thanksgiving that no lives were taken, and prayers of guidance for the future." Republican Gubernatorial Candidate Jack Cox, a guest preacher in the Disciples of Christ, reminded a G.O.P. rally in Richardson, Texas: "Most of us are prone to forget to whom we owe thanks for what we have, for what...