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The body of His Eminence Samuel Cardinal Stritch of Chi
cago, lies in state in a specially prepared large room on the
first floor of the North American College in Rome. The 70-
year-old Prince of the Church died in Rome’s Clinica Santrix
at 1:35 a. m. May 27, following a stroke. All the Cardinals
in Rome and many visiting prelates attended the Requiem
Mass in St. Ignatius Church, Wednesday, May 28, following
which the remains were flown to Chicago to lie in state in
Holy Name Cathedral there. Funeral rites were scheduled
for Tuesday morning, June 3. (NC Photos)
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ROME, May 30 — Rome,
which had expected to welcome
Samuel Cardinal Stritch as one
of the Church’s chief admini
strators, said goodbye to him
with simple prayers and the
solemnity due a Prince of the
Church.
More than 2,500 people, in
cluding 15 cardinals and the
whole diplomatic corps accred
ited to the Holy See, attended
the funeral Mass celebrated in
the baroque splendor of the
Jesuit Church of St. Ignatius.
Cardinal Stritch died about a
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month after arriving here from
Chicago to take up the post of
Pro-Prefect of the Sacred Con
gregation for the Propagation of
the Faith, the Church’s agency
in charge of missions through
out the world. The prelate’s
right arm had been amputated a
little above the elbow because of
a blood clot three days after
his arrival, and he later suf
fered a stroke while recovering
from the operation.
His Holiness Pope Pius XII
sent the Sistine choir to sing
the requiem Mass for the 70-
year-old prelate who died in the
city where he was ordained to
the priesthood 48 years ago.
The people paid their major
tribute to the Cardinal the day
before the funeral Mass, when
his body was borne slowly
through the streets of down
town Rome from the North
American College where it had
rested in state to St. Ignatius,
where the prelate’s body spent
its last night in the Eternal
City with the remains of SS.
Aloysius Gonzaga and Robert
Bellarmine.
In a solemn cererbony at the
North American College earlier
that same afternoon, the eulogy
of the late Cardinal was read
in. sonorous Latin by a prelate of
the papal master of ceremonies
office. The body had been re
moved from the black draped
bier and placed in a double cof
fin of zinc and walnut lined
with purple silk.
After the eulogy Msgr. Ernest
Primeau, rector of Rome’s Chi
cago House for priests of that
archdiocesan taking post-grad
uate studies, knelt by the casket
and placed a scarlet silk veil
over the face of the departed
Cardinal.
A copy of the eulogy enclos
ed in a cylindrical lead tube
was placed at the feet of the
Cardinal who wore the purple
robes of an archbishop vested
for Mass. A simple white miter
rested just below his gloved left
hand.
The lid of the casket was af
fixed in the presence of Msgr.
Enrico Dante, prefect of papal
ceremonies, and other officials.
A purple ribbon forming a cross
was fastened on the lid with the
official seals required by cere
monies marking the death of a
cardinal. The lid also carried a
brass plate indicating the pre
late’s name and title, the date of
his birth and of his death, and a
brass cross.
A procession led by a cross
bearer then began its three-
quarter of a mile march from
the college to the Church of
St. Ignatius. More than 100 sem
inarians wearing supplices pre
ceded the glass-walled hearse
carrying the wooden coffin with
the Cardinal’s red hat on top.
Following the hearse were
Bishop Martin J. O’Connor, rec
tor of North American College,
Archbishop Pietro Sigismondi,
Secretary of the Sacred Congre
gation for the Propagation of the
Faith, all the priests from the
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Rome, the Cardinal’s relatives
and friends who came to Rome
during his illness, and some 400
seminarians and priests from
North American College and the
College of Propaganda Fide.
Also in the group were many
Asian, African, South American
and Philippine priests and sem
inarians studying in Rome.
As the Cardinal’s body moved
slowly through downtown traf
fic, thousands of Romans halted.
In pious fashion men, women
and children stopped whatever
they were doing and crossed
themselves, repeating in their
act the solemnities observed
only a few minutes before at
the college where priests had
prayed “Vale in Christo” —
farewell in Christ.
Police along the route came
to attention and rendered the
military salute. Some women
threw kisses to the passing body
and some men, obviously mili
tary, came to attention and
bowed solemnly from the waist.
The funeral cortege, preceded
slowly by a motorcycle escort,
moved across the Tiber and up
the busy Corso Victor Emmanu
el, then turned left to pass be
hind the Pantheon and by the
Church where St. Catherine of
Siena is buried, and minally
halted in the 17th-century
square of St. Ignatius.
The casket was carried into
the church and placed in a gold,
and black draped bier, while
the Cardinal’s tasseled hat hung
on the front of the bier to mark
the prelate’s resting place. The
bier was surrounded by 104
tall candles and black draped
benches where the following
day high ranking prelates as
sisted at the Requiem Mass.
Celebrant at the Mass was
Bishop O’Connor with two of
the Pope’s private chamberlains,
Msgr. Sergio Minelli and Msgr.
Pio Dominicis, acting respect
ively as decon and sub-deacon.
Ranged on two benches in the
sanctuary were the cardinals of
the Roman Curia, among them
Their Eminences Eugene Card
inal Tisserant, Dean of the Sac
red College, and Pietro Cardi
nal Fumasoni Biondi, Prefect of
the Sacred Congregation for the
Propagation of the Faith, under
whom Cardinal Stritch would
have served.
Among the distinguished
mourners were several other
Princes of the Church and pre
lates visiting Rome, as well as
the top-ranking prelates of the
Vatican Secretariat of State and
representatives of the Italian
government. Visiting prelates
included Archbishop Aloisius J.
Muench, Bishop of Fargo, N. D.,
and Papal Nuncio to Germany,
and Archbishop Giovanni Pani-
co, Apostolic Delegate to Can
ada.
Assisting on the altar were
Chicago seminarians John Fla
vin, John Keating, John Hot-
chin and James Roache.
At the conclusion of the Mass
Cardinal Tisserant imparted ab
solution assisted by Father
James Egan of Oak Park, 111., a
graduate student at the North
American College, and semi
narian Peter Zavadowski of Ci
cero, 111.
Outside the church during
Mass stood an Italian honor
guard of Alpine troops and
army, navy and air force mem
bers as well as a military band
which sounded a trumpet call
at the elevation of the Host and
played Chopin’s Funeral March
during the elevation of the cha
lice.
Cardinal Stritch’s body re
mained in the church for three
hours after the funeral Mass
and was then taken to Ciampino
Airport where it was placed
aboard a TWA airliner in the
presence of the honor guard of
Italian troops.
Accompanying the Cardinal’s
body to Chicago aboard the
plane were Msgr. James Hardi-
man, the Cardinal’s personal
secretary, Msgr. Primeau; Msgr.
Patrick Hayes, rector of Holy
Name cathedral in Chicago;
Msgr. Andrew P. Landi, direc
tor of Catholic Relief Services-
National Catholic Welfare Con
ference for Italy, Msgr. Pio Ben-
incasa, of the Secretariat of
State, and the Cardinal’s ne
phews, Father Morris Stritch
and Robert Emmet Stritch.
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WASHINGTON, (NC) — A
television panel debating “Re
ligion and the Presidency,” on
a nationwide broadcast, agreed
generally that candidates might
be asked political questions that
are related to Church practice.
Two of the four panel mem
bers — both members of Protes
tants and Other Americans
United for Separation of Church
and State — said Catholics must
be closely quizzed because they
are most subject to what they
called powerful influences.
Participants in Lawrence Spi-
vak’s hour-long program, “The
Big Issue,” broadcast over NBC-
TV (June 1) were: Congress
man Eugene J. McCarthy of
Minnesota; Dean Francis B.
Sayre, Jr., of Washington Epis
copal Cathedral; Dr. John A.
MacKay, president, Princeton
Theological Seminary, and past
POAU vice president, and Glenn
L. Archer, executive director of
POAU.
Rep. McCarthy said that can
didates could be questioned if
the queries are “truly political.”
“The only thing that I would
object to,” he said, “is the kind
of implies, if not stated, assump
tion that a Catholic would an
swer these questions in only one
way.”
“For example,” he continued,
“when you raise the questions as
to whether a Catholic candidate
for the presidency is in favor of
boycotting the public schools,
you attribute to him a position
which he may not hold.
“I think the better question is
to ask him whether he is in fa
vor of public support at the
Federal level for the mainten
ance of public schools. That is
a political question.
“Now you can ask him about
an Ambassador to the Vatican,
but this is not a Catholic-
Protestant position; this is a
question of national policy,” he
said.
Dean Sayre, to illustrate that
persons other than Catholics
might be asked similar political
questions, said that voters might
want to know the stand of a
Christian scientist with respect
to a public program of immuni
zation through polio shots.
Dean Sayre also dealt with
the charges of some Protestants
who maintain that Catholics
cannot be conscientious officials
because they have “an alleg
iance to a foreign power,” as
represented by the Pope.
“I think this accusation does
an injustice to my Roman bre
thren,” he said. “I would say
that the allegiance given by
Roman Catholics is not to a
foreign power, but to the Lord
and in this they are virtually
no different from Protestants.”
“We too,” he said, “owe an
allegiance to the Lord which is
over and above and beyond the
allegiance we owe to the state
. . . No Christian can grant to
the state an absolute right over
his conscience,” Dean Sayre
said.
Dr. Mackay, who served from
1948 to 1954 as POAU vice pres
ident, expressed fear of what he
called “the tremendous reality
of clericalism” that he charged
would face a Catholic president.
Clericalism he defined as the
pursuit of political power by a
religious hierarchy.
He said he would like a Cath
olic candidate “to make it plain”
that he wduld resist the so-
called pressure. But he admitted
under newsmen’s questioning
that Protestant churches have
often tried to dominate the sec
ular order and that Protestants
can be subjected to pressure.
In his presentation, Mr.
Archer, POAU’s executive di
rector, repeated most of the
questions for Catholic candi
dates that his organization dis-
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tributed several months ago.
These included questions
about whether Catholics stand
for “religiously - segregated
schools,” whether they would be
inclined to appoint an ambassa
dor to the Vatican “contrary to
our tradition and our law,” and
whether they “accept the
American basic law that no man
shall be required to pay a tax
to support another man’s relig
ion.”
“Seeking to buttress his ar
gument that the Catholic
Church has “taken some posi
tions in the political field that
run contrary to our Constitution
and to our tradition” and that
“the normal checks and bal
ances of the government of the
United States are inadequate
when it comes to pressure of the
Roman Catholic Church,” Mr.
Archer used three major ex
amples.
Referring to the U. S. Con
gress, he said: “Let me give you
an example. When they (Con
gress) appointed a million dol
lars for the Pope’s summer
home, there wasn’t anybody
who would stand up against
it lest he be called anti-Catholic
or anti-religious and that went
through by a voice vote.”
Mr. Archer had reference to a
measure signed by President
Eisenhower in June, 1956, which
paid the State of Vatican City
$964,199 for war damages by
American bombings to Castel-
gandolfo, the papal summer res
idence.
During World War II, Ameri
can air raids, aimed at nearby
German encampments, hit Cas-
telgandolfo, not only damaging
the building, grounds and valu
able art work, but killing an es
timated 1,500 to 2,000 Italians
who had taken refuge there.
Mr. Archer also said that in
Maine, the Roman Catholic ac-
tionists threatened to dump 900
students on the public schools
until they could have public
monies.”
He had reference here to
moves made in March, 1957, by
parents of children in Augusta’s
two parochial schools to get
city-sponsored school bus trans
portation for those pupils living
more than a mile from school.
That city’s voters had approv
ed the transportation in Decem
ber, 1956, in an advisory vote
carried out in connection with
municipal elections. But the
transportation was not granted.
The parents then said they
would withdraw their children
from parochial schools and put
them in already-overcrowded
public schools unless transporta
tion was granted.
The action was postponed,
however, when city officials and
parents agreed on a legal test
of such transportation. The Ken
nebec Superior County Court
has since upheld the transporta
tion plan and an appeal is now
pending before the Maine Su
preme Court.
The third of Mr. Archer’s ex
amples was this: “Only two
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weeks ago, in the city of Bloom
field, N. J., Roman Catholic
priests took children out of the
public schools and raised the
papal pronunciation saying their
authority transcended the au
thority of the school board.”
Mr. Archer had reference to
about 150 Catholic students in
Bloomfield and neighboring
Glen Ridge public high schools
who left classes on May 13 and
14 about an hour before school
closed to attend their annual
retreat.
The students took this action
when the Boards of Education
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grant permission for the absenc
es. In previous years, the two
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dents. But last year, the Glen
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same position this year and the
Bloomfield board followed suit.
Priests of eight area parishes
had advised parents in a letter
it was a religious duty to have
the students attend the annual
retreat. All the students pre
sented school officials with writ
ten requests by parents for the
absences.
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