Richard Cushing
Richard James Cardinal Cushing (born August 24, 1895 in Boston , Massachusetts , USA ; † November 2, 1970 there ) was Roman Catholic Archbishop of Boston .
Life
Born in the Boston borough of South Boston , Richard Cushing received his philosophical and theological training in Boston and Brighton . He received on 26 May 1921, the sacrament of Holy Orders , and then worked as a pastor in the Archdiocese of Boston. From 1922 to 1929 he was deputy director, from 1929 to 1944 director of the Society for the Propagation of the Faith.
In 1939, Cushing was named Titular Bishop of Mela and Auxiliary Bishop in Boston. He was ordained episcopal by William Henry Cardinal O'Connell on June 29, 1939. Co- consecrators were the Bishop of Manchester , John Bertram Peterson , and the Vicar Apostolic of Jamaica , Thomas Addis Emmet SJ .
On September 25, 1944, Pope Pius XII appointed him . to the Archbishop of Boston. Pope John XXIII took him on December 15, 1958 as a cardinal priest with the titular church of Santa Susanna in the college of cardinals .
Politically, Cushing supported Franco's fascists during the Spanish Civil War in the 1930s, the anti-communist campaign of Senator Joseph McCarthy in the 1950s, and the US military intervention in Vietnam in the 1960s. His political thinking was marked by excessive anti-communism when, in 1959 , he said of the Soviet Prime Minister Nikita Khrushchev that he was working “day and night, in thoughts and deeds ... with refined brutality, like all his comrades, for the global victory of communism . Every problem and every situation - Berlin, Geneva, friendly visits, cultural exchange - serves one purpose: world revolution. "
Richard Cardinal Cushing attended the Second Vatican Council from 1962 to 1965 . In 1963 he chaired the funeral of the assassinated US President John F. Kennedy . In 1965 he consecrated as a papal legate the Cathedral of Galway in Ireland . He resigned the leadership of the Archdiocese of Boston on September 8, 1970 due to illness. He died on November 2, 1970 and was in the chapel of the Colette School buried.
Honors
- 1952: Honorary Doctorate from the College of the Holy Cross
- 1952: Honorary Doctorate from the University of Portland
- 1957: Large Cross of Merit with star and shoulder ribbon
- 1958: Honorary Doctorate from the National University of Ireland
- 1959: Honorary Doctorate from Saint Mary's University Halifax
- 1960: Order of El Sol del Perú
- 1965: Member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences
literature
- John H. Cutler: Cardinal Cushing of Boston. Hawthorne Books, New York 1970.
- Joseph Dever: Cushing of Boston. A candid portrait. Humphries, Boston, Mass. 1965.
- MC Devine: The world's cardinal. The life of Richard Cardinal Cushing. St. Paul's Editions, Boston, Mass. 1964.
- John H. Fenton: Salt of the earth. An informal profile of Richard Cardinal Cushing. Coward-McCann, New York 1965.
Web links
- Cushing, Richard James. In: Salvador Miranda : The Cardinals of the Holy Roman Church. ( Florida International University website), accessed January 27, 2017.
- Entry on Richard Cushing on catholic-hierarchy.org ; accessed on January 27, 2017.
- Picture of the cardinal on the cover of Time magazine
Individual evidence
- ^ Arnold James Rudin, Rabbi James Rudin: Cushing, Spellman, O'Connor. Eerdmans Publishing, 2012. page 77
- ^ Moral rearmament, ideology and coexistence , Bonn 1959, page 28
- ↑ PDF at www.nui.ie
- ↑ [1]
| predecessor | Office | successor |
|---|---|---|
| William Henry O'Connell |
Archbishop of Boston 1944–1970 |
Humberto Sousa Medeiros |
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Cushing, Richard |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Cushing, Cardinal Richard James (full name) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | American clergyman, Archbishop of Boston, and Cardinal of the Roman Catholic Church |
| DATE OF BIRTH | August 24, 1895 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Boston , Massachusetts |
| DATE OF DEATH | 2nd November 1970 |
| Place of death | Boston |