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Cardinal O’Connell and the Conclave of 1922
The Story of William O'Connell Shows Where the Church's Troubles Really Started
By James O'Toole
Boston Globe
January 12, 2003
BY NOW, THE STORY is all too familiar. A powerful cardinal cuts a wide swath in a predominantly Catholic city.
Public officials defer to him, and anything he says on any topic makes news simply because he is the one who says it. He owes his position not to the support of the local Catholic community, but to powerful patrons in Rome, carefully cultivated over many years. The Vatican is his only real constituency. He is largely friendless among his own priests.
He is equally remote from ordinary parishioners, most of whom respect but never grow to love him.
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And even as he wields considerable power, he also takes care to conceal a disturbing secret. Once the full story is revealed, his historical reputation is diminished.
That may sound like the story of Cardinal Bernard Law, recently resigned as archbishop of Boston. But William O'Connell (actor) - Wikipedia FEBO