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Archbishop Francis Joseph Spellman of New York was the subject of the latest Roman rumor: he would be made a cardinal next fall, then papal Secretary of State. Archbishop Spellman served in the secretariat for seven years-two of them while Pope Pius XII was papal Secretary of State...
...Pope religious conditions in Russian-occupied Lithuania, Poland, Rumania and Hungary, and explained Stalin's views on Catholics in these countries. Some sort of working agreement between the Vatican and Russia was discussed. Perhaps the details would be left to another intermediary-for instance, Archbishop Francis J. Spellman of New York...
...Bronx's Edward J. Flynn, onetime political boss turned diplomat, was busy on a mysterious mission to Moscow. Presumably, he was laying the groundwork for U.S. mediation. By the time Flynn finishes his business in Moscow, New York's diminutive Archbishop Francis J. Spellman, a Vatican favorite and the man most likely to represent the Pope in Kremlin negotiations, will reportedly be waiting for him somewhere in Europe or Africa...
Next day in Manhattan's St. Patrick's Cathedral, Archbishop Francis J. Spellman departed from the text of his sermon to denounce the statement as an i"insult to 25,000,000 fellow-Americans" He called the signers "selfstyled superpatriots [who] do disservice to their country and violate the Golden Rule...
...battle zones last week, some U.S. Catholic chaplains offered outdoor Masses in strange garb: khaki vestments tinted by camouflage experts. Altar cloths were also camouflaged. Reason for the change, effected by New York's Archbishop Francis J. Spellman, Roman Catholic Military Vicar of the U.S. Armed Services: the traditional white and brightly colored vestments draw fire from enemy planes...