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...became best known for his passionate but somehow hapless tirades against the evils of Joe McCarthy. Never did he back away from an issue for purely political purposes. In 1949, on the eve of his first election to the Senate, he risked thousands of votes by denouncing Francis Cardinal Spellman for having criticized Eleanor Roosevelt. Spellman, angered at Mrs. Roosevelt's opposition to public aid to parochial schools, had said her "record of anti-Catholicism" was "unworthy of an American mother...
...renewal of the church urged by Pope John. In the Jesuit weekly America, Father Robert Graham makes a strong case for a new "civil rights" policy that would include a drastic overhaul of Holy Office procedures. A number of bishops-reportedly including New York's Francis Cardinal Spellman-have protested the instruction by the Congregation of Seminaries, and Pizzardo has advised papal nuncios and apostolic delegates not to circulate the decree...
Numismatists (from nomisma, Greek for anything sanctioned by usage, the current coin) include such diverse types as the late business wheeler-dealer Samuel Wolfson, ex-King Farouk (who sold his collection for about $3,000,000), Jayne Mansfield and Cardinal Spellman. But most collectors are children; these days they can even begin their numismatic careers at Woolworth's, which has installed coin departments' in several of its stores...
...Nashdom Abbey use the Roman missal and monastic breviary rather than the Book of Common Prayer, and countless Roman Catholic tourists have queued up before the confessionals in Manhattan's St. Mary the Virgin Church only to discover belatedly that they were not in one of Cardinal Spellman's parishes. The ceremony-conscious Anglo-Catholics seem oddly yoked in brotherhood with low-church "Anglo-Baptists," who frown on stained glass and statuary as Biblically forbidden graven images and celebrate austere Communions on plain wooden tables free of candles or crucifix...
Roman Catholic cardinals spoke out against the ruling. New York's Francis Cardinal Spellman thought it would "do great harm to our country." Boston's Richard Cardinal Cushing called it "a great tragedy." Los Angeles' James Francis Cardinal Mclntyre said that "our American heritage of philosophy, of religion and of freedom is being abandoned...