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...also found a new urge to keep himself in the public eye. He had welcomed the U.N. to Hunter College, paid tribute to Cardinal Francis J. Spellman on his return from Rome, spoken at a dinner honoring Winston Churchill, opened the season for the New York Giants by tossing out the first ball, been guest of honor at the Washington correspondents' Gridiron Dinner, taken his family to the circus at Madison Square Garden (see cut), and averaged some three speeches a week in Albany...
...Primacy. If, as many observers rate him, Spellman is Catholicism's No. 2 man, the position is entirely unofficial. He cannot even be called the leader of U.S. Catholicism, although he has done much to make U.S. Catholicism more American. The red hat itself is a badge of honor, not of sacerdotal rank. Neither Spellman nor the other U.S. cardinals has more power (except to help choose the next Pope) than have their 17 fellow archbishops...
Only democracy seems to offer this hope to mankind at large, the opportunity to regain their Christian concept of human dignity and worth. In this hope, Spellman proclaimed...
...This is Spellman's-and his friend Pius XII's-fervent prayer...
...example of the form of government which today promises the most for the Church's survival. It looks to the U.S. as an idealistic people who have at last chosen, or been forced, to take their place in international affairs. And it looks to Francis Cardinal Spellman as the practical, idealistic American who can best advise and guide its effort to utilize these forces in its favor...