Ex- Catholics For Christ - Spreading the Gospel of Jesus Christ! CARDINAL FRANCIS SPELLMAN. The American Pope". At the cardinal's requiem. Saint Patrick's Cathedral, New York in 1. Here. you can see three. American presidents at the Vatican "kneeling" and, I suspect paying "homage" before. Pope John Paul II in 2. One can see where the. However, could you imagine three Roman pagan emperors kneeling. Peter or Paul? Of course not! How the world, therefore, love their. There is an old saying. How. do you get to become a cardinal in the Catholic church?"The answer is three fold. You have to be a man. You have to be a Catholic. Want to learn how to get the most out of RefWorks? Simply download our Quick Start Guide and you’ll be using RefWorks in no time! You can also check out our. Updated world stock indexes. Get an overview of major world indexes, current values and stock market data. 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Whitman Massachusetts, the young Francis would be noticed by the local hierarchy. Rome for further priestly studies at the prestigious American College. Ordained in 1. 91. Pacelli, no less, who would later be known as Pope. Pius XII, Spellman would, after a brief period of parish work in the United States. Rome to function in the potent atmosphere of the Vatican's Secretary. State's office and be further domiciled in Rome for. I suspect very happy years. One interesting item in his clerical CV would be his willing role in 1. Pacelli in helping to smuggle from Rome to Paris, the encyclical "Non. Abbiamo Bisogno," penned by Pius XI as a criticism of fascism. It must have been. American, we are informed, for apparently he was shot at by. Mussolini, in an attempt to prevent this controversial Vatican document. But perhaps it's just a minor harassment and nothing more. In 1. 93. 9 with gathering. Pius XII (the former Vatican Secretary. State, cardinal Pacelli) appointed Francis, archbishop of New York and in 1. For. Spellman this must have seemed a wonderful gesture from his friend in Vatican City. However during the Second. World War Spellman, in his new capacity as Chaplain general to the American forces. Europe and. the Pacific. He would also certainly galvanize. American Catholic support behind FDR in the on going war effort. During this busy. President Roosevelt's personal representative.(With. FDR in 1. 94. 0)This must have placed. Spellman was much more than a simple. We. also learn from sister Pascalina, special papal aide to Pius XII, the following. She. [Pascalina] had learned of a major scandal involving the Knights. Malta, the Holy See's influential laymen's organisation, and was determined. Pope [Pius XII] clean house of the cardinals and others who were running. Knights of Malta] and turning it into an international money- making. Pius was slow to move against the Knights of Malta because several of the. Holy See's leading prelates were involved, including Nicola Cardinal Canali, one of. Sacred College, Bishop. Angelo Roncalli, and their other close friend Cardinal Spellman" (pgs. Later in the turbulent. LBJ and his decisions in the disastrous. Vietnam War. This being in flagrant contrast to the exhausting role that Pope. Paul VI was trying to take in reaching a diplomatic road to peace! At this stage we have. American Catholic hierarchy, and perhaps the most instantly recognizable to the American. Since his death in 1. Francis Spellman have hinted at him being a practicing homosexual. Broadway chorusboys and others, it is claimed, knew him affectionately as. Franny."Indeed many of his fellow. Catholic bishops just took it all for granted concerning his sexual activities. Once. when Spellman was openly challenged about his predilection for the same sex he would. Who would believe it?" Who. But then the cardinal. New York City always had friends in high places, reaching all the way to the White. House! (One also thinks of Cardinal. Cody who also was able to cover up so much of many misdemeanours during his. Chicago.)Either way, today the. American gay and lesbian fraternity claim the late Cardinal Spellman as one of their. It certainly was a different. American. way of life. However by the 1. The times they are a changing," shouted Bob Dylan and boy was this popular mantra. America! There was also a deep- rooted. Catholic church that resulted in the calling of the Second Vatican. Council in 1. 96. Pope John XXIII (Angelo Roncalli,) who according to some was. Rosicrucian. So was the council a. Illuminati agenda for their bishops and others to shape and re- organize the. Catholic church to today's format? Many still see it that way. Today the plan still. On a personal note. I do happily remember that in 1. I was in Paris and was offered the opportunity. Vice President Johnson, who was on his way back home to Washington after visiting. Rome, to present him with a Telstar silver paperweight. I do recall that. Vice President had perhaps 2 or 3 bored Secret Service men standing. Lincoln. I was able, with a few American friends. UNICEF building. I do remember that he wore a. It was very low. key and we all got to shake his hand before he left us. To me he seemed in no hurry. Then he took out of his pocket a half a dozen inscribed black biro pens. With best wishes from Lyndon B. Johnson." I. kept mine as a souvenir for many years until a fire in the early 1. I have to admit that I liked him. As I say it was a. The Catholic church in. Vatican II moved dramatically to the left and welcomed Marxist ideology under Paul. VI.(Just try reading his 1. Populorum. Progressio" it's very political.) Spellman. Vatican II church reforms. Vietnam War. True in 1. Fidel Castro in his sights for removal, one diplomat remembers: "Spellman's information. Cuba was better than ours. His intelligence was very, very good."Castro would later refer. The Cardinal of the Pentagon, the CIA and the American monopolies." To Spellman all serving. US troops in Vietnam were in his opinion "Soldiers of Christ."Once to enquiring journalists. Saigon on one of his many trips to the country, his reply about. US military presence was justified was direct and simple: "My. Why. the man even displayed a picture of himself standing before a fighter plane on his. Christmas cards. Later he would bless air bombers with sprinkled "holy water". Ho Chi Minah trail on a Pentagon sortie. By now he was sounding. American pope! No, not pope Paul VI, but rather like Pius XII. You can. just hear him ruminating in the officers mess in Saigon in 1. Now there. is a pope and I knew him before he made pope!"And. Later Spellman would. CIA and. the State Department. In return he would be invited by LBJ for military briefings. Pentagon. The President was always forward in asking. Once at an invited prayer. Billy. Graham and the cardinal, LBJ asked both of them what he should do next in the. Vietnam theatre? Graham was uncomfortably silent."Bomb them," Spellman. Just bomb them." And the President did! By the mid swinging sixties. Spellman was now known as "The Bob Hope of the clergy." Why. Draft Spellman Now." You could even buy. Spellman's War" embossed on it, and I can't help thinking that. Spellman loved it, he just didn't care. On one occasion a four- star. Saigon noted: "We hardly count it a war if you don't come," he announced. Spellman alighted from a military aircraft. The cardinal, we are informed, just beamed his priestly approval at this accolade. One also has to ponder. The pope was on a peace mission to New York to address the UN general assembly. Later. Illuminati room in that dubious building on. Hudson River. Both men by now were openly pursuing different personal agendas. Asian war that some saw as escalating out of control. For Spellman. it was a divine mission to shape American foreign policy. Whatever the cost, in the. America could and would win. For pope Paul, now ever. Vietnam stalemate. For. Spellman this gesture, he reasoned, spelt of a bitter betrayal to the thousands of. Incidentally. over 5. Vietnam War memorial in Washington. DC, I haven't been there myself, but some years ago James. Kennedy brothers' graves. Arlington cemetery. I do remember him telling me he found it an emotional experience.)But by now the sands. American war or debacle as some now openly. For an exhausted LBJ and the diminutive cardinal from New York, time was. By 1. 96. 9 a new Republican. President was negotiating a diplomatic solution to the war. Previously. LBJ had declined his parties' nomination in 1. Texas. where amongst other things I remember he grew a ponytail! And for Francis Spellman. At his funeral. the highest and the lowest of American society, journeyed to St Patrick's Cathedral. American Pope."And. I suspect they quickly forgot about him. Today I prefer to remember. Mothers Day. Well I have to suggest. B5. 2 bombers well doesn't it? I think it does. Conclusion. Francis Spellman certainly. American pope in 1. John XXIII. I believe he really thought this was within his political grasp, but. That dubious future honour may still await one of the American cardinals. But. Catholic church. In Revelation 1. God's. voice from Heaven, thunders: "Come out of her, my people, that ye be not partakers. That to me is directed. Catholics, The World Council of Churches and assorted financiers of the One World. Remember: All must be born again (John 3: 3- 7.)Sources La. Popessa, by Paul Murphy and Rene Arlington, 1. Assorted. articles especially, The Irish Echo's article on Spellman, by Edward T. O'Donnell, 2. 00. GPB 2. 9th. March 2. All. Rights Reserved).
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