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28 oct. 1984 · FRANCIS CARDINAL SPELLMAN, who was Archbishop of New York from 1939 until his death in 1967, was a major figure in American political life and the history of the Roman Catholic Church. In...
Le cardinal Spellman était un ardent partisan de la guerre du Vietnam, qui pour lui signifiait la lutte de la « Civilisation » contre la barbarie communiste. Il est surnommé le « Bob Hope du clergé » .
Francis Joseph Spellman (May 4, 1889 – December 2, 1967) was an American Catholic prelate who served as Archbishop of New York from 1939 until his death. Spellman previously served as an auxiliary bishop of the Archdiocese of Boston from 1932 to 1939. He was created a cardinal in 1946.
In contrast to Spellman's long apprenticeship as a politique, Paul Hallinan's early experience of priesthood in the 1930s and 1940s epitomized in many respects the guileless fantasy world of the Catholic priesthood created by Hollywood in those years in such movies as Going My Way. He was born in
24 avr. 2023 · The archconservative Spellman was the epitome of the self-loathing, closeted, evil queen, working with his good friend, the closeted gay McCarthy henchman Roy Cohn, to undermine liberalism in America during the 1950s' communist and homosexual witch hunts.
17 déc. 2012 · December 17, 2012 by Pat McNamara. He wasn't, like some of his fellow bishops, an impressive figure. Nor was he an accomplished speaker, like some others. And he wasn't a scholar. But he was the...
A steadfast social, political, and theological conservative, Cardinal Spellman often took positions on public policy issues, and in the summer of 1949 he engaged Eleanor Roosevelt in a vitriolic public debate about the merits of federal funding for parochial schools.
