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Running interference for New York's usually self-sufficient Robert Moses, Francis Cardinal Spellman raised in a private audience with Pope John XXIII the matter of the Vatican Pavilion exhibit at the 1964 New York World's Fair. Result: the pavilion's attractions will include Michelangelo's only signed work, the moving Pieta, which has long graced the first chapel of St. Peter's Basilica and has never before in its 463-year history been out of the Vatican...
Outside Italy, few cardinals have much influence on the slow-turning wheels of Rome. New York's Francis Cardinal Spellman was a trusted confidant of Pius XII, is not so close to Pope John. But, as boss of the nation's richest diocese, he carries more weight than the four other U.S. archiepiscopal cardinals, Richard Gushing of Boston, Albert Meyer of Chicago, James Mclntyre of Los Angeles, and Joseph Ritter of St. Louis. Also respected is Polish Primate Stefan Wyszynski, whose skillful battle to keep the church alive in a Communist land is admired by the Pope...
...York's Francis Cardinal Spellman recently called omission of parochial schools from President Kennedy's aid bill "a terrible crime...
...more Roman Catholic had still to be heard from: New York's Francis Cardinal Spellman. He immediately called Kennedy's program "a dagger threatening our very existence." In a speech to 1,500 teaching nuns, brothers and lay teachers, Spellman said: "If the Federal Government should favor the public schools and put an additional tax on us, from which we would receive no benefit, then, my dear friends, it is the eventual end of our parochial schools...
...news conference last week that he will maintain this stand "unless there is a new judgment by the Supreme Court." But no legal test is now under way, so the issue will be fought out in Congress. As he did in a similar statement last year, Cardinal Spellman has signaled a rising Catholic pressure that can overwhelm the President's bill by adding Northern Catholic Democratic votes to basic Republican-Southern Democrat opposition...