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...movement represents the view of 70% of the nation's Catholics. Every diocesan survey so far shows widespread support for changes in the Mass, which were approved by more than 90% of American bishops. Among them was De Pauw's own superior, Baltimore's Lawrence Cardinal Shehan. His comment: "I regret extremely that Father De Pauw has seen fit to take the stand that he has professed...
...Kindly Pastor. Among so many cardinals, at least one was sure to be an American, but the Pope's choice was close to being a surprise: shy, tiny (5 ft. 3 in.) Lawrence Joseph Shehan, 66, who has been Archbishop of Baltimore since 1961. He becomes the sixth U.S. cardinal, and the second in the history of the nation's oldest diocese.* A kindly pastor who still makes sick calls and regularly hears confession in Baltimore's Mary Our Queen Cathedral, Shehan is also a forceful worker for civil rights and Christian unity. He has banned...
...Shehan's elevation to the cardinalate was unexpected-there were Vatican observers who thought Philadelphia's energetic Archbishop John Krol a more plausible candidate-other appointments were not. Some of Paul's red hats went to men who govern ancient European sees that have come to expect cardinal-archbishops as a matter of course-Milan's Giovanni Colombo, for example, and Florence's Ermenegildo Florit. As Archbishop of Westminster, England's primatial Catholic see, John Carmel Heenan had a right to expect a cardinalate; so did Archbishop William Conway of Armagh, the Primate...
...majority of Roman Catholic leaders deplored the court decision from the start and still do. Archbishop Lawrence J. Shehan of Baltimore said a fortnight ago that "secularization threatens to become a sort of state religion established by court decree...
Died. Mrs. Ellen Shehan Hanlon, 90, in Manhattan. She was employed by President Lincoln while in the White House as nurse to his son, Robert Todd Lincoln...