Word: spellmans
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Memorial Foundation, hosted by Francis Cardinal ' Spellman in Manhattan's Waldorf-Astoria. Talking over the nodding heads of the 2,500 before him, Rocky added to a long evening with a high-minded, deadly serious speech on the need for the U.S. to match its principles with deeds. He was interrupted only once by applause. And the performance looked worse than it actually was in contrast with the subsequent showmanship of Senator John F. Kennedy, a seasoned campaigner who sensed his audience's aching desire for brevity and a spark of humanity. Democrat Kennedy supplied...
...convinced that English had been made the official language of the Vatican. Even Pope John XXIII, coached for the past year, prepared to use the newest in his vocabulary of nine languages. And to Rome a mass pilgrimage of American Catholic clergy brought three cardinals (New York's Spellman, Boston's Gushing, Philadelphia's O'Hara), five dozen archbishops and bishops, and scores of other U.S. churchmen for a typically American celebration: Homecoming Day. Most were old grads returning to their alma mater-Rome's North American Pontifical College, a stern seminary for U.S. priests...
...class usually fails to finish. As a training ground for U.S. Catholic hierarchy, the college's record is spectacular; of 1,900 priests graduated in the past 100 years, 115 have become bishops, one became a Trappist abbot, and six (sole survivor: New York's Spellman) later wore the cardinal...
...Roman Catholic Archbishop of the Archdiocese of New York. Francis Cardinal Spellman - Whitman High School, Whitman, Mass...
This week he keeps up his customary pace as he moves back and forth between New York (special Masses, dinners, receptions) and Boston (a private reunion with relatives). At 70, Spellman remains the foremost U.S. Catholic prelate and probably the busiest. As he put it 20 years ago: "I shall pray as if everything depended on God. I shall work as if everything depended...