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...Memorial Hospital last month, doctors found evidence of massive cancer metastasis (spreading growth) throughout his body. Last week, on his birthday, Dr. Dooley was visited by New York's Francis Cardinal Spellman. Said Cardinal Spellman afterward: "I tried to assure him that in his 34 years he had done what very few have done in the allotted Scriptural lifetime." A day later, Tom Dooley was dead...
...Giving the U.S. six cardinals. The others: Spellman of New York, Meyer of Chicago, McIntyre of Los Angeles, Cushing of Boston, and Muench, former bishop of Fargo, N.Dak., now serving at the Vatican Curia...
Both the American Constitution, under which the Puerto Ricans live, and their own Commonwealth Constitution of 1952, insist on the separation of religious and political powers. And Cardinals Spellman and Cushing in this country both opposed the Puerto Rican hierarchy's stand--although it is specifically provided for under canon law. These considerations, however, are secondary to the mandate of the popular vote...
...York's Francis Cardinal Spellman formally denied that it would be a sin to disregard the Puerto Rican bishops' injunction. Archbishop Egidio Vagnozzi, the Vatican's Apostolic Delegate to the U.S., declared that "the Catholic bishops of the United States have never taken any position similar to that taken by the bishops of Puerto Rico. I am confident, also, that no such action would ever be taken by the hierarchy in this country." (But Archbishop Vagnozzi got no support from the Vatican, which reiterated the right and the duty of bishops to advise voters at election time...
...command performance) in black tie and found Nixon in white tie and tails, he seemed so comfortable that Nixon was moved to comment that whichever man won the election would outlaw the agony of full dress. In his speech, Kennedy produced some spirited quips. Only the host, Francis Cardinal Spellman, he said, could have brought together at the same banquet table two political leaders "who have long eyed each other suspiciously and who have disagreed so strongly, both publicly and privately-Vice President Nixon and Governor Rockefeller." He went on to crack to this knowledgeable audience that Casey Stengel...