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...FOUNDLING (304 pp.) - Francis Cardinal Spellman-Scribner...
Through the carnival scenes beat the steady, deafening sound of cheering as the general passed by. He got out twice-once to speak a few words at City Hall, once before St. Patrick's Cathedral, where Francis Cardinal Spellman walked into the street in his brilliant red robes to shake the hero's hand...
...Hungarians were demanding the return of the 1,000-year-old crown of St. Stephen as ransom for Vogeler. The crown, a religious relic and symbol of. Hungarian sovereignty, was stolen by the Nazis, recovered by the U.S. Army. Roman Catholic dignitaries, including New York's Cardinal Spellman, protested against the return of the crown...
...permitted to see Roberto Rossellini's film, The Miracle (TIME, Jan. 19), moved last week from a picket-lined sidewalk in Manhattan to Albany. After a special screening, ten members of the state's Board of Regents (2 Catholics, 2 Protestants, 6 Jews), agreed with Cardinal Spellman's denunciation of the film, unanimously voted to ban it, despite the protests of an impressive roster of citizens-including churchmen and lay Catholics...
Last December The Miracle was put on by Manhattan's Paris Theater as one of three shorts under the overall title, Ways of Love (TIME, Dec. 18). Cardinal Archbishop Spellman denounced it as not only a "vile and harmful picture," but also "a despicable affront to every Christian . . . a mockery of our faith." He demanded that the license for The Miracle's showing be revoked by the New York State board of regents. If the board did not have the necessary power, he implied that U.S. Roman Catholics would go all out to change the censorship laws. Promptly...