Word: resignations
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...platform to stress caritas-charity. As Cushing knows, it is one of the most elusive of virtues. Two days after his speech, he announced that the volume of hate mail he had received as a consequence, some of it "in the language of the gutter," had persuaded him to resign his see at the end of this year instead of his previous target date, August...
Totally Unpredictable. In announcing his decision to resign well ahead of schedule, Cushing complained that 98% of the mail he had received since his statement to the Caritas Guild had condemned his stand. The cardinal sentimentally pointed out that his own sister had married a Jew outside the church and that, while Mrs. Onassis might not be able to receive the sacraments, "she should continue all the private devotions she had as a Catholic...
...third time that Cushing had publicly announced his intention to resign. A product of Boston's once-Irish urban ghetto, he was named Archbishop of the city in 1944, and subsequently proved to be one of the great school and church builders of American Catholicism. Affectionately human and totally unpredictable, Cushing was, more importantly, a pioneer ecumenicist in the open style of Pope John, a maverick prelate who found it possible, at various times, to endorse both the John Birch Society and the N.A.A.C.P. In poor health for many years-and, at 73, only two years away from...
Dutch-born Bishop Simons, who has been a missionary in India since 1935, expects that he will be asked to resign his see as a result of the book, which he wrote out of intellectual conviction. "Having come to the conclusion that I could prove that the Church's belief in infallibility is mistaken," he explains, "I felt I had no choice but to publish my case." The book will unquestionably be studied with care in the Vatican, since Bishop Simons says flatly that "a scrutiny of the traditional arguments seems to prove that the very structure of infallibility...
...Cardinal had previously planned to resign in 1970, when he will be 75-years-old. In recent years the pope has encouraged older cardinals to resign so that younger men may assume the posts...