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Richard Cardinal Cushing, Archbishop of Boston, said yesterday that he will offer his resignation to the Pope, effective this year, because of the abuse and criticism he has received for defending Jacqueline Kennedy's marriage to Aristotle Onassis.
"I propose after the publicity I have received in recent days in my own native city which has gone all over the world, to offer my resignation to his Holiness, Pope Paul VI, effective the end of this year," the 73-year-old prelate said in a radio interview. Cushing...
Cushing, a long-time friend of the Kennedy family, denied reports that Mrs. Onassis sent him a transatlantic telephone call thanking him for the defense.
Though Cushing denied that he felt Mrs. Onassis could continue to receive the Catholic sacraments, he said, "I continue to plead for charity."
According to an American associate, Eliot Bailen, Onassis "is not an officer of any corporation, domestic or foreign, but an owner holding stock that gives him control of corporations." As a result, he controls some 100 companies in a dozen nations, operating a fleet of perhaps 4,000,000 tons...