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Such a man is Francis Cardinal Spellman, who this month is celebrating his 75th birthday and his 25th anniversary as Archbishop of New York. Last week nearly 4,000 guests crowded into four ballrooms of the Waldorf-Astoria for a banquet in his honor, and piles of gifts, letters and telegrams spilled across his office desks at 452 Madison Avenue. In part, the tributes came because Spellman is a genuinely warm and kindly man, a gregarious and sociable prelate whose gentle smile and sly Irish wit can charm Presidents as well as plumbers. But there was also the respect paid...
...Cardinal Moneybags." When Pope Pius XII named Spellman as its archbishop in 1939, New York was probably the richest see in the U.S.; it is now the richest in the world. Spellman's spiritual empire, running from Staten Island to the Catskills of Ulster County, has almost doubled in size, to 1,782,000 faithful. To serve his growing congregation, Spellman has built 37 new churches, 130 schools and five hospitals (including the New York Foundling Hospital, his favorite charity); almost every year he is responsible for $90 million worth of construction. Much of this he managed by consolidating...
...observers at the Vatican Council have dramatically changed the attitude of U.S. Roman Catholics toward men of other faiths. Boston Irish are no longer surprised when Richard Cardinal Cushing kneels in prayer in an Episcopal church. For the first time since he became Archbishop of New York, Francis Cardinal Spellman attended a Protestant funeral last week. The service was for Mrs. Robert F. Wagner, the Presbyterian wife of the city's Catholic mayor; the Cardinal also authorized her burial in a Catholic cemetery. The Episcopal Bishop of Colorado has spoken at a Knights of Columbus Mass in Pueblo...
Last week, when New York's Francis Cardinal Spellman made his second trip to conduct Christmas services at McMurdo Station, he found U.S. Opera tion Deep Freeze headquarters heated and lighted by an experimental $7,000-000 atomic reactor. There was turkey in the mess hall, a new movie nightly in the wardroom. Navy Seabees were bus ily installing a saltwater conversion plant which would ease the perennial water shortage, thus doing away with the "honeypot" latrines that have created a gleaming yellow man-made gla cier in the middle of the base. Navymen naturally echo the Rodgers...
...spent Christmas with U.S. troops in the Arctic, and now New York's Francis Cardinal Spellman, 74, was headed the other way, saying, "I don't want to slight the South Pole." He will spend Yuletide with the men assigned to U.S. Antarctic bases. It might be chilly, but the trip offers an unaccustomed bonus. Spellman will celebrate three Christmas Masses because of the international date line; a midnight Mass at McMurdo, then an 800-mile flight for a Christmas Day Mass at Byrd, and finally across the date line for another midnight Mass at the Amundsen-Scott...