![]() ![]() ![]() In this, the first major biography of one of the most important Americans of the twentieth century, John Cooney examines Spellman's rise from a young seminarian from Massachusetts to the clergyman with unparalleled influence on domestic and international politics as well as on American Catholicism.įrom his first days at the North American College in Rome, Spellman carefully cultivated the Vatican inner circle - Cardinal Pacelli, later to become Pope Pius XII, the powerful Sister Pascalina, and Vatican banker Count Galeazzi. Spellman's mark was so great that at his death the Church was said to have become Spellmanized. In his twenty-eight-year reign as archbishop of New York, Francis Cardinal Spellman extended the power and influence of the American Catholic Church further, and wielded them more forcefully, than anyone before or since. ![]()
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