Talk:Francis Spellman/Archive 1

Episcopal succession box
Though I appreciate the amount of work involved in putting in the episcopal succession box, I agree with its removal. I think it's very relevant who consecrated whichever bishop an article is about, but I don't see any need to give a complete list of all the bishops were consecrated by the subject of the article. AnnH ♫ 11:29, 2 May 2006 (UTC)

Spellman pro-War?
I have been reading James Carroll's, "Constantine's Sword", in which he says in several places that Spellman was an advocate and "instigator" of the Vietnam War. I hope someone with more knowledge on this will add this to the main page. -Teetotaler 05:59, 26 January 2007


 * Spellman was not alone in the Church in advocating a strong resistance to the spread of Communism. He correctly judged that if the pro-West government of South Vietnam fell there would not only be a suppression of the Catholic Church but mass killings of Catholics.   However Spellman became ostracized during the papacies of Pope John XXIII and Pope Paul VI who refrained from any criticism of Communism in the (ultimately) false hope that it would encourage the Communists not to crush the Catholic Church in areas under its control.  Spellman, who died in 1967, then was considered a warmonger and Wojtyła a dangerous loose cannon.  Cooney's 1984 book discusses these themes -- generally unsympathetically to Spellman's memory. patsw 00:49, 4 April 2007 (UTC)

Spellman and the Mafia
In the Wikipedia entry on Operation Underworld it says that Spellman worked with Mafia to stop Communism. Should this link be added to the article? --Teetotaler

Introduction
Keep the introduction simple. The title "prelate" is obscure and doesn't belong in the introduction. patsw 02:22, 19 October 2007 (UTC)

"Coetus Internationalis Patrum"
Does "Coetus Internationalis Patrum" appear in any biographical work on Spellman? Is there any contemporaneous reference to CIP? patsw (talk) 12:59, 30 November 2007 (UTC)