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...many requests for foreign translation rights to his bestselling novel The Foundling, the answer from Cardinal Spellman was still no. His reason: the story is "too American" to be understood in any other language...
...Reducing the strength of the College of Cardinals (top, 70) to 50, the number of U.S. cardi nals to three: Mooney of Detroit, Stritch of Chicago, Spellman of New York...
Last week, at 56, Fulton Sheen joined the 180 bishops and archbishops of the U.S. hierarchy. His new title: titular Bishop of Caesariana and Auxiliary to New York's Cardinal Archbishop Spellman. In addition to his present duties as national director of the Society for the Propagation of the Faith (the world missionary society of which the Pope himself is the head), he will become one of four auxiliaries assisting Cardinal Spellman in the work of the richest Catholic diocese in the world...
Nobody expects a cardinal to be able to write a great novel, and The Foundling leaves that solid assumption undisturbed. The foundling of Cardinal Spellman's story turns up in Manhattan's St. Patrick's Cathedral shortly after World War I. The finder is a disfigured, heartsick war veteran named Paul Taggart. He wants to adopt the infant boy, but the boy has been born to a Roman Catholic mother and Taggart is a Protestant. Taggart settles for a lifetime devotion to the youngster, beginning with visits to see him in a Catholic orphanage...
...novelist, Cardinal Spellman is bland and amateurish. But if his book will not advance American literature, it will do positive good in another quarter: every nickel of the proceeds (including about $40,000 from the Literary Guild) goes to the New York Foundling Hospital...