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This week, as Francis Joseph Cardinal Spellman celebrated his 70th birthday and his 20th anniversary as New York's archbishop, he could look the length and breadth of his see for some remarkable achievements. During the last two decades, the Catholic population of the New York archdiocese (including Manhattan, The Bronx, Staten Island, and seven suburban counties) grew 50% to 1,558,328; the number of auxiliary bishops had risen from one to nine; the number of elementary and high schools had increased from 307 to 412; tireless Fund Raiser Spellman has chalked up $41,322,074 through...
...many ways Francis Spellman represented the U.S. to the Vatican, did much to help modernize its ancient methods, was admired as well as occasionally resented for his drive, efficiency and muscular opposition to Communism. Noted at home for tough stands on Catholic issues (e.g., his hassle with Eleanor Roosevelt over publicly paid transportation for parochial schools, his frequent criticism of movies he considered indecent), he traveled tirelessly, has spent many Christmases with U.S. troops in Japan, Korea and Europe in his capacity as military vicar to the armed forces...
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...
...walls hung with Renoirs, Utrillos, Constables and Gauguins; its guests dined off silver plates dipped in gold. Some of the guests: Dwight and Mamie Eisenhower, General Alfred Gruenther, Papal Legate Angelo Giuseppe Roncalli (now Pope John XXIII), the Duke and Duchess of Windsor, Prince Bernhard of The Netherlands, Cardinal Spellman, Bernard Baruch, and practically every noted French politician, artist or writer...
Also, they were harried by capricious or impossible orders. Once Morros was ordered to have someone infiltrate Cardinal Spellman's office. His Eminence was almost certainly working for the FBI, reasoned the masterminds...