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...friends to avoid the obvious question: When That Great Agent Up Yonder Books Jessel's Last Act, who will deliver the eulogy? As it happens, Jessel is toying with plans for a four-star performance featuring two Los Angeles rabbis, a Roman Catholic archbishop, and Francis Cardinal Spellman of New York. Then again, Jessel may simply write his own and put it on tape. Nobody could do it better...
...have reached with weary steps and a heavy heart the evening of my life. I pray that with God's help I shall be able to finish the journey in accordance with his divine will." Going on 50 years in the priesthood, New York's Francis Cardinal Spellman, 76, felt tired as well. "I don't know if I can keep going on much longer," he said at a Catholic charities communion breakfast. But then he laughed: "I will keep going as long as I can, even if I need a derrick...
...foot of my bed and screaming at me." Without the probing stirred up by a trio of responsible citizens, he might still be serving his life sentence. "It is you who must stand between the man and a case like this," said second-trial Defense Attorney Eugene Spellman to the jury, "or God help the little man on the street who confesses to every crime...
...week tour of Latin America. The Jesuits insist that the assignment was "routine." Berrigan's friends believe that his exile was forced upon the Jesuits by the Most Rev. John Maguire, who was acting head of the New York Archdiocese while Francis Cardinal Spellman was in Rome for the Vatican Council. Archdiocesan officials say that they were "not involved with the reassignment." Berrigan, now staying in Cuernavaca, Mexico, says that he is delighted with the chance to visit Latin America, but that his trip "was arranged mainly to remove me from the movement of protest against...
...Remarkable Invention. In 1956, New York's Francis Cardinal Spellman condemned both the prurience and lechery in Baby Doll-a judgment delivered in the exercise of a right, but nonetheless one widely criticized as employing a pulpit so powerful that the denunciation amounted to censorship. But a change of climate was taking place, and in 1957 Pope Pius XIIs encyclical Miranda Prorsus (The Remarkable Inventions) suggested that Catholics should be more concerned about encouraging good movies than condemning bad ones...