No not Martin Sheen! “The two men disagreed about almost everything, including the Vietnam War, for which (NY Cardinal) Spellman became the loudest cheerleader not only within the cautious episcopate but arguably across the United States. After repeatedly being passed over for various appointments, (Bishop) Fulton J. Sheen was finally made bishop of Rochester, New York, in 1966.” WAPO. I remember watching both Sheen’s on TV.
“Father John M. Corridan, S.J., the famous “Waterfront Priest” who inspired Karl Malden’s character in the 1954 film On the Waterfront, had a complex and tense historical relationship with Francis Cardinal Spellman, the powerful Archbishop of New York. Father Corridan was effectively removed from his waterfront ministry. He was quietly reassigned by his superiors to teach economics at Le Moyne College in Syracuse, away from the New York docks.” The Cardinal booted both Sheen and Corridan out of New York City to upstate NY!
And that is all I’m going to say about that!
