Word: sheen
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Churchly speculation on who would succeed the late Francis Cardinal Spellman as Roman Catholic Archbishop of New York mostly centered on familiar names. Rochester's Bishop Fulton J. Sheen was one much talked-about candidate; so was Detroit's Archbishop John Dearden, head of the national conference of U.S. bishops. Last week Pope Paul confounded all handicappers by naming as head of the nation's richest and most prestigious archdiocese a young and virtually unknown prelate: the Most Rev. Terence James Cooke, 47, one of New York's twelve auxiliary bishops...
...Roman Catholic view of Lenten devotion holds that giving is one of the finest forms of penance, and Rochester's Bishop Fulton J. Sheen, 72, was more than agreeable. On Ash Wednesday he disclosed that he has turned over $680,000 worth of church property in downtown Rochester-1½ acres of land, a church and a parochial school-to the Federal Government for use in an urban-renewal project. Some of the Negroes and Puerto Ricans who make up a majority in the parish were distressed at losing the church and school, but Sheen promised to support...
...favorite of young people, he sports a Beatle hairdo and a free-swinging style in the manner of Leonard Bernstein. Sometimes he indulges his expressive stick technique to paint panels of sheer sound, but he can also propel vibrant, vivacious performances as notable for their substance as for their sheen...
...Eastman Kodak and Xerox, Rochester, N.Y., has a lot of candidates for a winner of its Salesman of the Year award. This year, though, the Chamber of Commerce passed up the boys with the order books and reached into the Rochester Roman Catholic Archdiocese to hail Bishop Fulton J. Sheen, 72, for his "outstanding job of selling Rochester to the country, to the world and to itself...
...poor. "For every dollar that goes into a church building, a dollar should go to feed starving children," says Presbyterian Minister Robert Hudnut of Wayzata, a Minneapolis suburb, who believes that all new churches should reflect "humility and economy." Rochester's innovation-minded Catholic Bishop Fulton J. Sheen (see PEOPLE) feels much the same way; up to 3% of the value of every parish construction project must be paid to Sheen's office in the form of a levy, which is then channeled to the poor in the district...