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...touches an American reader deeply; what is of interest is that having satisfied the requirements of tradition, the author provides a gentle but undeluded view of her villagers. The priest, Father Roque, is a good but henpecked man who, when vexed, is fond of wondering how his idol, Cardinal Spellman, would deal with his parishioners. "Oh, Lord, let her eat fewer raw onions, let her abstain from onions, let her learn to abhor them," he implores, after listening in tears to his harridan of a housekeeper. Among Father Roque's other trials are an arrogant matron who will...
...Other humor making the rounds in Catholic circles: Kennedy wins the presidency, and in the normal course of events the time comes to elect a new Pope. "How about America's Cardinal Spellman?" suggests one Italian cardinal. "Not on your life," snaps a second. "Do you want the Vatican to be run from the White House...
...Esthetic Factor. As U.S. voters have been known to do, many Europeans reached their choice by tortuous paths. Some Italian anticlericals favored Roman Catholic Kennedy because he would "tell off Cardinal Spellman and set an example to our own Christian Democrats." France's tabloid Paris-Jour, after rhapsodizing over Jackie Kennedy's French ancestry and artistic leanings, declared with evident approval that she "wishes to admit to the White House the Latin Quarter, the quays of the Seine and Montparnasse." The Quai d'Orsay remembered Kennedy's explosive 1957 speech calling for independence for Algeria...
...Munich's cathedral 15,000 people heard New York's Francis Cardinal Spellman attack Communism as "a wild beast of the forest," making "this the most dangerous summer since 1939." Climax of the congress came Sunday, when more than a million people streamed for the final Mass into the vast Theresienwiese fair grounds, surrounding a high wooden altar. Direct from Rome they heard a radio message from John XXIII: "You and we perceive with great concern what dark clouds of danger hover over mankind and how heavily the peace of nations is threatened. Therefore let us pray together...
...priest became a member of the first Maryknoll group of four missionary priests to be sent to China. In 1927, when the mission became a vicariate, he became its first bishop. Bishop Walsh returned to the U.S. in 1936 to serve as superior-general of the Maryknoll Fathers. Cardinal Spellman sent him back to China again in 1948 as executive secretary of the Catholic Central Bureau, coordinating all missionary, cultural, welfare and educational activities of the church in China...