Monday, Aug. 16, 1937
Mooney to Detroit
Into Detroit one day last week pulled a special train bringing Archbishop Edward Francis Mooney to head the newly created Detroit archdiocese, fifth largest of the 17 in the U. S. (TIME, June 14). His pince-nez flashing, tall Archbishop Mooney descended to the platform where Michigan's Governor Frank Murphy and a representative of the city's Mayor Frank Couzens waited to shake his hand.
In nearby Roosevelt Park, throngs of Catholics and non-Catholics presently heard the Catholic Governor greet his new spiritual leader with a reference to Michigan's "weighty problems of social and economic adjustment.'' Said Governor Murphy: "To the solution of these problems Archbishop Mooney brings a world of wisdom, of kindly understanding and of farseeing vision. I rejoice in the thought of the great good that a shepherd of his spiritual content can do for the people in encouraging the Christian approach to their problems."
Next day Archbishop Mooney was installed in his post in the presence of ten U. S. and Canadian archbishops, many a bishop, monsignor and priest. Escorted by Knights of Columbus in cocked hats, the ecclesiastics marched through crowded Detroit streets in what was the year's most showy parade, taking half an hour to pass through the portals of the Church of the Blessed Sacrament. There on a throne sat Archbishop Amleto Giovanni Cicognani, Apostolic Delegate to the U. S., whose name (pronounced chee-kone-yonny) had become to many an impious Detroiter "Chicken Annie." Three papal bulls were read and Archbishop Mooney knelt in prayer until the Apostolic Delegate led him to the throne, placed a crosier (crook) in his hand.
Archbishop Mooney, whose friends last week were relating that he wept real tears when directed by the Pope to move on from his old post as Bishop of Rochester, N. Y., immediately took up his new duties, first of which was to install Most Rev. Joseph H. Albers, lately of Cincinnati, as first bishop of Lansing, Mich. The Detroit Free Press informed its readers that the city's new shepherd wished to be addressed, not with the formal "Your Excellency," but thus: "'Good morning, Archbishop!' or 'Archbishop, will you have coffee?' "
P: To succeed Archbishop Mooney in Rochester the Holy See recalled Bishop James Edward Kearney from Salt Lake City, to which diocese he, a Manhattanite, had been sent five years ago (TIME, July 18, 1932). Bishop Kearney's first task in Rochester may be to find a new cathedral site. Presumably planning expansion, Eastman Kodak Co. announced last week it was negotiating to purchase St. Patrick's Cathedral and nearby Catholic property. Before the sale can be closed, Pope Pius XI must give permission, arrange to have the Cathedral's holy ground deconsecrated.
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