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...your article on the cardinals [March 30], one caption reads, "Mass was sung for Cardinal Muench of Milwaukee." That should read "of Fargo." Muench was Bishop of Fargo from 1935 to 1959, when he became a member of the Curia in Rome...
...Cardinal Muench was born and raised in Milwaukee and was consecrated a bishop there in 1935. He was bishop of Fargo 24 years but spent most of that time as Vatican representative to West Germany...
Died. Aloisius Joseph Cardinal Muench, 72, only U.S. prelate ever to serve on the Roman Curia, a witty Midwesterner who championed social and labor legislation, served for 13 years as papal representative in West Germany; of Parkinson's disease; in Rome...
...Giving the U.S. six cardinals. The others: Spellman of New York, Meyer of Chicago, McIntyre of Los Angeles, Cushing of Boston, and Muench, former bishop of Fargo, N.Dak., now serving at the Vatican Curia...
...Chicago. We must be even more dedicated now." Archbishop Meyer is expected to be the only one of the new cardinals who will not be assigned to the Curia in Rome. The second American to get a red hat was also born and bred in Milwaukee; Aloysius Joseph Muench, 70, the first U.S. citizen to be an accredited diplomatic representative of the Vatican. Pope Pius XII made him apostolic visitor to Germany in 1946, raised him to archbishop in 1950 and apostolic nuncio in 1951. As the first foreign diplomat to present his credentials to the German Federal Republic...