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Ecumenism & English. Although a personal friend to clerics of many faiths, Spellman was, at best, a reluctant ecumenist. Nonetheless more than 100 Catholic bishops and almost 50 Protestant, Orthodox and Jewish clerics were present at the cathedral. Among them was Archbishop lakovos, Orthodox primate of North and South America, who was invited to sit on an elevated, canopied throne in the sanctuary. It was the first time that an Orthodox prelate had been so honored in New York...
...Spellman throughout his life had a love for Catholicism's old Latin liturgy. The requiem that honored his death was as up-to-date as the church allowed. The funeral Mass - concelebrated by nine cardinals, two archbishops, seven bishops and one priest*- was conducted entirely in English, in accordance with recent reforms of the postconciliar church. The predominant liturgical color of the service was penitential purple rather than funeral black -reflecting the tone, attuned more toward hope than sadness or mourning, of modern Catholic funerals. Notably absent from the service was the beautiful but chilling sequence Dies...
...With It. There was also a succinctly honest and even witty tone to the eulogy by Jesuit Father Robert Gannon, president emeritus of Fordham University and author of Spellman's biography. "In life, our cardinal archbishop did not look like the great man that he was," said Father Gannon. "He was never a great scholar, or a great orator, or a great writer either. He spent his life doing things for God, for his country and his neighbor that only a great man could...
...Spellman's nephew, the Rev. John J. Peg-nam, a Navy chaplain who has been on a ship stationed off South Viet...
...Even as Spellman's body was being laid to rest, U.S. Catholics were wondering about who might succeed him as pastor of the nation's most prestigious see. The fact that no one really knew* emphasized the extraordinary secrecy surrounding the church's method of choosing its spiritual shepherds...