Word: spellmanism
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...significant reminder of how fantastically the world had changed since the Sacred College first met in the 12th Century: two giant planes had brought to Rome the new U.S. cardinals-Archbishops John J. Glennon of St. Louis. Samuel A. Stritch of Chicago, Edward Mooney of Detroit and Francis J. Spellman of New York...
...meet this crisis, the Vatican looks to the ideological and material support of the U.S. To enlist U.S. support, it looks chiefly to the devout but uniquely American career and character of Francis Cardinal Spellman...
...American Touch. Like few prelates, Spellman had a secular education in the public schools of Whitman, Mass. He delivered groceries, peddled papers, played baseball and was a trolley-car conductor at an age when most of the solemn little Italian boys who are now his contemporaries in the Church had already begun their education for the priesthood...
...able, and Boston's William Cardinal O'Connell sent him to Rome's North American College, where young Americans of exceptional promise are given the Church's most careful training. He developed a scholarly flair, impressed a tall, eloquent professor of theology named Borgongini-Duca. Spellman too was impressed: when he returned to the U.S. as a priest in 1916, he translated two of his master's books of devotions...
...flight arrangements were made by Archbishops Spellman and Stritch. They insisted on full fares and routine treatment. But the aerial pilgrimage had its humble touch: the prelates' baggage...