RICHARD ARCHBISHOP CUSHING,BOSTON 1947 ORNATE INVITATION,EPISCOPAL CONSECRATION

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EARLY CARDINAL CUSHING, WHEN ARCHBISHOP OF BOSTON.
He became Cardinal in 1958.
Conferring upon The Most Reverend John Joseh Wright D. D.....
This is an early item of Richard James Cushing, D. D. who would later become
Cardinal of Boston, and Priest of the Kennedy Family.
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Richard Cushing
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His Eminence
Richard James Cushing
Cardinal
,
Archbishop emeritus of Boston
See
Boston
Installed
September 25, 1944
Term ended
September 8, 1970
Predecessor
William Henry O'Connell
Successor
Humberto Sousa Medeiros
Other posts
Cardinal-Priest of Santa Susanna
Orders
Ordination
May 26, 1921
by
William Henry O'Connell
Consecration
June 29, 1939
by William Henry O'Connell
Created cardinal
December 15, 1958
by
John XXIII
Rank
Cardinal-Priest
Personal details
Birth name
Richard James Cushing
Born
August 24, 1895
Boston, Massachusetts
Died
November 2, 1970 (aged 75)
Boston, Massachusetts
Previous post
Auxiliary Bishop of Boston
(1939-1944)
Motto
Ut Cognoscant Te
(That they may know thee)
Coat of arms
Ordination history of
Richard Cushing
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History
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Episcopal succession
Richard James Cushing
(August 24, 1895 – November 2, 1970) was an
American
prelate
of the
Roman Catholic Church
. He served as
Archbishop of Boston
from 1944 to 1970 and was made a
cardinal
in 1958. Cushing's main role was as fundraiser and builder of new churches, schools, and institutions. Unlike his predecessor, he was on good terms with practically the entire Boston elite, as he softened the traditional confrontation between the Catholic Irish and the Protestant upper-class. He built useful relationships with Jews, Protestants, and institutions outside the usual Catholic community. He helped presidential candidate
John F. Kennedy
deflect fears of papal interference in American government if a Catholic became president.
Cushing's high energy level allowed him to meet with many people all day, often giving lengthy speeches at night. He was not efficient at business affairs, and when expenses built up he counted on his fundraising skills instead of cost-cutting. Cushing, says Nasaw, was "fun-loving, informal, and outgoing. He looked rather like a tough, handsome, Irish cop and behaved more like a ward politician than a high church cleric."
[1]
His major weakness in retrospect was overexpansion, adding new institutions that could not be sustained in the long run and had to be cut back by his successors.
[2]
Early life and education
Cushing was born in
South Boston
on August 24, 1895.
[3]
The third of five children, he was the son of Patrick and Mary (née Dahill) Cushing.
[4]
His parents were both
Irish
immigrants; his father was originally from
Glanworth
,
County Cork
, and his mother from
Touraneena
,
County Waterford
.
[5]
His father, who came to the United States in 1880,
[6]
worked as a
blacksmith
and earned per week in the trolley repair pits of the
Boston Elevated Railway
.
[7]
Cushing received his early education at Perry Public Grammar School in
South Boston
, since there was then no
parochial school
for boys in Gate of Heaven Parish.
[8]
Cushing dropped out of high school in his freshman year because of his compulsive truancy.
[7]
He subsequently entered
Boston College High School
, a
Jesuit
college preparatory school.
[4]
His tuition there was paid by his cousin, who was a priest of the
Archdiocese of New York
. He graduated from high school in 1913, receiving honors for Latin and Greek. Cushing was torn for a time between religion and politics.
[7]
He originally wanted to be a politician, even earning money by speaking for politicians from the back of wagons.
[6]
He twice considered joining the Jesuits,
[6]
but came to the conclusion he "was cut out more for the active life and not the teaching apostolate."
[
citation needed
]
He entered
Boston College
in 1913, becoming a member of the first freshman class following the college's move to
Chestnut Hill
.
[3]
At Boston College, he was active in the Marquette Debating Society and elected vice-president of his sophomore class. Following the sinking of the
RMS
Lusitania
in 1915, Cushing enlisted in the United States Army but was medically discharged for his asthma after a few weeks. After attending Boston College for two years, he began his studies for the
priesthood
at
St. John's Seminary
in
Brighton
in September 1915.
[4]
He was assigned to continue his studies at the
Pontifical North American College
in Rome, but the escalation of
U-boat activity
prevented him from sailing across the Atlantic.
[
citation needed
]
Priesthood
On May 26, 1921, Cushing was
ordained
a priest by Cardinal
William Henry O'Connell
at the
Cathedral of the Holy Cross
.
[9]
His first assignment was as a
curate
at St. Patrick's Church in
Roxbury
, where he remained for two months. He was afterwards transferred to St. Benedict's Church in
Somerville
. In 1922, he appeared unannounced at the residence of Cardinal O'Connell to request an assignment as a
missionary
.
[4]
The young priest declared he wanted to "take heaven by storm."
[6]
O'Connell denied his request, and instead appointed him assistant director of the Boston office of the
Society for the Propagation of the Faith
, an organization dedicated to raising funds for missions.
[3]
He later served as director of the Society from 1929 to 1944.
[3]
He was raised to the rank of
Monsignor
on May 14, 1939.
[3]
Episcopal career
On June 10, 1939, after Bishop
Francis Spellman
was named
Archbishop of New York
, Cushing was appointed
auxiliary bishop
of Boston and
titular bishop
of
Mela
by
Pope Pius XII
.
[9]
He received his
episcopal
consecration
on the following June 29 from Cardinal O'Connell, with Bishops
John Bertram Peterson
and
Thomas Addis Emmet
,
SJ
, serving as
co-consecrators
, at the Cathedral of the Holy Cross.
[9]
He took as his episcopal
motto
:
Ut Cognoscant Te
(
Latin
: "That they may know thee").
[
citation needed
]
As an auxiliary bishop, Cushing continued to serve as director of the Society for the Propagation of Faith, and was also named
pastor
of Sacred Heart Church
[10]
in
Newton Centre
. Following the death of Cardinal O'Connell in April 1944, he served as
apostolic administrator
of the archdiocese.
[3]
Archbishop of Boston
Cushing (left) with Boston
Mayor
John F. Collins
at the
groundbreaking
of
Boston City Hall
Cushing was named the third
Archbishop of Boston
on September 25, 1944, following Cardinal O'Connell's death. During his tenure, Boston would see the
excommunication
of Fr.
Leonard Feeney
for his stringent interpretation of the Catholic doctrine that
there is no salvation outside the Church
. Feeney refused to back down from his position, although it has been reported that he was ultimately reconciled with the church before his death.
[11]
After the death of Pius XII, Cushing published a moving tribute to him.
[12]
In 1959, Cushing published a biography of the late
Pope Pius XII
(1939–1958), depicting the late pope as "Pope of Peace". His work contributed to making the
Roman Catholic Church
acceptable to the general population at the time of then-Senator
John F. Kennedy
's run for the
White House
. Part of this work included reaching out to the non-Catholics of Boston after "the muscular style of involved Catholicism that Cardinal O'Connell brought to bear on issues of his day - religious, social, and political - in Boston and Massachusetts".
[13]
Cushing was honored by
B’nai B’rith
as "man of the Year" in 1956 for "
a lifetime of distinguished service to the cause of human brotherhood under God and in further recognition of great leadership in the fields of education and community relations
."
[14]
As a close correspondent with Archbishop
Richard Cushing
,
Robert E. Segal
played a key role in Jewish- Catholics relations in Boston.
[15]
Cushing was created
Cardinal-Priest
of
Santa Susanna
by
Pope John XXIII
in the
consistory
of December 15, 1958. He was one of the
cardinal electors
in the
1963 papal conclave
, which elected
Pope Paul VI
. He was a close friend of the
Kennedy family
. He officiated at the
marriage
of John F. Kennedy and
Jacqueline Lee Bouvier
in 1953, at which he also read a special prayer from
Pope Pius XII
, and baptized many of the Kennedy children. Cushing gave the prayer invocation at
Kennedy's inauguration
in 1961. The Cardinal also celebrated
President Kennedy's
funeral Mass
in 1963 at
St. Matthew's Cathedral, Washington, D.C.
, following Kennedy's
assassination in Dallas, Texas
. The day before the funeral, he gave a
televised
eulogy
for the President. Cushing later defended Jacqueline Kennedy after her marriage to
Aristotle Onassis
in 1968. He received a large amount of
hate mail
and was contradicted by the
Vatican
.
[16]
Biography of Pope Pius XII
In 1959, Cushing published his only book, a biography of the late
Pope Pius XII
(1939–58). It is an almost
hagiographic
biography, written shortly after the death of the Pontiff. Cushing depicted him as the "Pope of Peace" who, armed only with the spiritual weapons of his office, triumphed over insidious attacks that seemed about to destroy the center of Christendom.
[
citation needed
]
Second Vatican Counci
At the
Second Vatican Council
(1962–65), Cushing played a vital role in drafting
Nostra aetate
, the document that officially absolved the Jews of
deicide charge
. His emotional comments during debates over the drafts were echoed in the final version:
We must cast the Declaration on the Jews in a much more positive form, one not so timid, but much more loving ... For the sake of our common heritage we, the children of Abraham according to the spirit, must foster a special reverence and love for the children of Abraham according to the flesh. As children of Adam, they are our kin, as children of Abraham they are Christ's blood relatives. 2. So far as the guilt of Jews in the death of our Savior is concerned, the rejection of the Messiah by His own, is according to Scripture, a mystery—a mystery given us for our instruction, not for our self-exaltation ... We cannot sit in judgement on the onetime leaders of Israel—God alone is their judge. Much less can we burden later generations of Jews with any burden of guilt for the crucifixion of the Lord Jesus, for the death of the Savior of the world, except that universal guilt in which we all have a part ... In clear and unmistakable language, we must deny, therefore, that the Jews are guilty of our Savior's death. We must condemn especially those who seek to justify, as Christian deeds, discrimination, hatred and even persecution of Jews ... 3. I ask myself, Venerable Brothers, whether we should not humbly acknowledge before the whole world that, toward their Jewish brethren, Christians have all too often not shown themselves as true Christians, as faithful followers of Christ. How many [Jews] have suffered in our own time? How many died because Christians were indifferent and kept silent? ... If in recent years, not many Christian voices were raised against those injustices, at least let ours now be heard in humility.
[17]
He was deeply committed to implementing the council's reforms and promoting
renewal in the church
.
[18]
In an unprecedented gesture of
ecumenism
, he encouraged Catholics to attend
Billy Graham
's crusades.
[19]
Cushing strongly condemned
Communism
, particularly the regime of
Josip Broz Tito
in Yugoslavia.
[20]
Cushing's resignation as Boston's archbishop was accepted on September 8, 1970. Upon his resignation, Senator
Ted Kennedy
stated: "For three-quarters of a century [Cushing's] life has been a light in a world that cries out for illumination. He will never have to account for his stewardship, for if his goodness is not known to God, no one's ever will be."
[21]
Death
Less than two months after his resignation, he died of
cancer
in Boston, aged 75, on the feast of
All Souls Day
, and was buried in
Hanover, Massachusetts
at the Portiuncula Chapel on the grounds of the
Cardinal Cushing Centers
.
[22]
[23]
[24]
Miscellaneous
Cushing was a member of the
NAACP
.
[
citation needed
]
Cushing founded the
Missionary Society of St. James the Apostle
in 1958 to "serve the needs of the poorest of the poor in
South America
".
[25]
Cushing wrote the foreword for the
Revised Standard Version Catholic Edition
of the
Bible
, and gave his
imprimatur
to the
Oxford Annotated Bible