John Wright (Bishop of Pittsburgh)
John Joseph Cardinal Wright ( born July 18, 1909 in Dorchester, Suffolk County, Massachusetts, USA, † August 10 1979 in Cambridge, Middlesex County, Massachusetts ) was a Cardinal of the Roman Catholic Church.
Life
Youth and priests
The son of John Wright, a paper mill employee, and his wife Harriet ( née Cokely ) worked while attending Boston Latin School at the Hyde Park Branch of the Boston Public Library as a magazine boy in the evenings and during the summer. He graduated from Boston College in 1931 and then joined Brighton from Saint John 's Seminary in. At the end of his first year in St. John's, he was sent to Rome to continue his studies at the Pontifical North American College and the Pontifical Gregorian University. The Cardinal Vicar, Archpriest of the Lateran Basilica and Secretary of the Holy Office, Cardinal Francesco Marchetti Selvaggiani, consecrated him on 8 December 1935 in the Chapel of the North American College Kania priest.
After his ordination, he attended the graduate program at the Gregorian, received a licentiate in theology in 1936 and in 1939 received his doctorate for Doctor Theologiae. He taught philosophy and theology at Saint John 's Seminary, until, in 1943 private secretary to the Archbishop of Boston, William Henry O'Connell. Under O'Connell's successor, Richard James Cushing, he retained the post. On 17 December 1944 he was appointed Chaplain of His Holiness.
Bishop and Bishop
Pope Pius XII. appointed him on 10 May 1947 Auxiliary Bishop of Boston and Titular Bishop of Aegeae. The Archbishop of Boston, Richard James Cushing, donated to him on June 30th of the same year in the Cathedral of the Holy Cross Episcopal ordination; Co-consecrators were Ralph Leo Hayes, Bishop of Davenport, and James Louis Connolly, Coadjutor Bishop of Fall River. His motto was Resonare Christ.
He was on 28 January 1950, the first Bishop of Worcester. In this position, he criticized both utopian and Weltuntergangsbeschwörer, and said that an exemplary Christian, the big mistake [ recognizes ], to which human nature is capable of ... but [ know ] that grace is stronger than sin.
Pope John XXIII. appointed him on 23 January 1959, Bishop of Pittsburgh. He participated in all sessions of the Second Vatican Council and was the decisive force behind some documents. Following the progress in ecumenism at the council, he believed that an immediate unity would result in good works and charity between Catholics and Protestants.
Cardinal
Paul VI. took him on 28 April 1969 as a cardinal priest with the titular church of Gesù Divin Maestro alla Pineta Sacchetti in the College of Cardinals, and appointed him at the same time as Prefect of the Congregation for the Clergy. He was one of four cardinals, who traveled in 1972 at Auschwitz Maximilian Kolbe; alongside John Joseph Krol he was the only other American cardinal to visit in Poland. He did not participate in the conclave in August 1978 in part because he was recovering from surgery, but the conclave in October. At the age of 70 years he died of polymyositis and was buried in the cemetery Holyhood in Brookline.
Views
The Legacy of Cardinal remains controversial. He was an intellectual who was liberal in social, but conservative in theological questions. He joined the civil rights and condemned the Vietnam War, but refused ordination of women and contraception. He also believed that the annual synods of bishops would be useless and burdensome and seven years, the appropriate age for children was to receive the sacrament of penance, because they would be able to correct sinful behavior at an early age.
Trivia
- He believed that Pope John Paul I, a funny pope, who combines a love of literature with the love of the Word of God is joy.
- He was very well informed about Joan of Arc.
- He ate almost every Saturday Boston Baked Beans.