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John Joseph Cardinal Carberry (July 31, 1904 – June 17, 1998) was an American

cardinal in 1969. He previously served as bishop of the Diocese of Lafayette in Indiana from 1957 to 1965 and bishop of the Diocese of Columbus
in Ohio from 1965 to 1968.

During his term as archbishop, Carberry was a strong advocate for ecumenicism and racial equality.

Biography

Early life and education

John Joseph Carberry was born in

Cathedral College of the Immaculate Conception in Queens.[4] He excelled in both baseball and the violin at the college.[3]

From 1924 to 1930, Carberry studied for the

Pontifical Urbaniana University.[5]

Ordination and ministry

On June 28, 1929, Carberry was

Doctor of Canon Law degree in 1934.[1] Carberry then served as a curate at St. Patrick's Parish[8] in Huntington, New York, for one year.[5]

From 1935 to 1940, Carberry was on loan to the

canon law at Seminary of the Immaculate Conception[9] in Huntington, New York, from 1941 to 1945.[2]

Carberry was an officialis of the Diocese of Brooklyn from 1945 to 1956, serving as chief judge of the diocesan court.[10] He also served as diocesan director for radio and television, becoming known as the "radio priest."[3] Carberry was named a papal chamberlain on February 3, 1948, and raised to the rank of domestic prelate on May 7, 1954.[1] From 1955 to 1956, Carberry served as president of the Canon Law Society of America.[5]

Bishop of Lafayette

On May 3, 1956, Carberry was appointed

Cathedral of St. Mary in Lafayette, Indiana, on August 22, 1956 .[6]

Upon the death of Bishop John Bennett, Carberry automatically succeeded him as the second bishop of Lafayette on November 20, 1957.[6] He convened the first diocesan synod and established the Diocesan Council of Men and the Society for Priestly Vocations during his tenure.[2] Carberry attended all four sessions of the Second Vatican Council between 1962 and 1965.[1] During its third session, he addressed the Council on Dignitatis humanae, the declaration on religious liberty.[2]

Bishop of Columbus

Carberry was appointed the seventh bishop of the Diocese of Columbus by

Civil Rights Movement and ecumenical movement.[3] He established the Clergy Advisory Council, and oversaw the renovation of St. Joseph's Cathedral after issuing regulations for liturgical changes.[3] Carberry also bought a new building to centralize the offices of the diocesan chancery.[3] In 1966, he was named by Cardinal Francis Spellman as vicar delegate of the Military Ordinariate for Ohio, West Virginia, Kentucky, Tennessee, Mississippi, and Alabama.[2]

As a member of the

Thomas Boland, who directed the parish to make the necessary changes.[12]

Archbishop of St. Louis

On February 14, 1968, Carberry was appointed the fifth archbishop of the Archdiocese of St. Louis.

Pauls' epistles by the Presbyterian scholar Keith Nickle.[15][16]

In 1971, Carberry made a controversial decision to close McBride High school in largely black

North St. Louis area, while subsidizing a swimming pool at John F. Kennedy High School in Manchester, Missouri, a wealthy suburb.[17][18] Carberry moved his own residence from the episcopal residence in St. Louis to suburban Creve Coeur, Missouri. In 1972, Carberry established the Urban Services Apostolate for inner-city parishes in the archdiocese.[2] He was elected vice-president of the National Conference of Catholic Bishops in 1974, and was a delegate to the World Synod of Bishops in 1972, 1974 and 1976.[19] Carberry initially opposed the reception of communion by hand, believing it was irreverent and risked the possibility of recipients stealing hosts to use at black masses.[20] However, he later permitted this practice in St. Louis in 1977.[2] That same year, he ordained the first permanent deacons in the archdiocese.[19]

Carberry was one of the

apostolic delegate to the United States, whom he perceived as "destroying the Catholic Church in the United States."[21] Carberry was a vocal critic of the television sitcom Maude, which he said "injected CBS-TV as advocate of a moral and political position that many not only oppose but find positively offensive as immoral. ...The decision to secure an abortion or the decision to have a vasectomy, even for those who choose them, is hardly a joke."[22]

Later life and death

Upon reaching the mandatory retirement age of 75 for bishops, Carberry resigned as archbishop of St. Louis on July 31, 1979.[6] He was succeeded by Bishop John L. May, then serving as Bishop of Mobile.[23] After suffering a stroke in 1988, Carberry moved into St. Agnes Home in Kirkwood, Missouri,[2] where he died at age 93. He died soon after his only living relative, sister, Loretto Carberry.[4] He is buried in the crypt of the Cathedral of St. Louis.[1]

References

  1. ^ a b c d e f Miranda, Salvador. "CARBERRY, John Joseph (1904-1998)". The Cardinals of the Holy Roman Church. Archived from the original on 2014-01-11. Retrieved 2010-05-28.
  2. ^ a b c d e f g h i j k Jackson, Kenneth T.; Markoe, Karen (2002). The Scribner Encyclopedia of American Lives. Vol. V. Arnie Markoe. New York: Charles Scribner's Sons.
  3. ^ a b c d e f g "The Bishops of Columbus". Roman Catholic Diocese of Columbus. Archived from the original on 2018-04-08. Retrieved 2010-05-28.
  4. ^ a b c Saxon, Wolfgang (1998-06-19). "John J. Cardinal Carberry, 93; Led Archdiocese of St. Louis". The New York Times.
  5. ^ a b c d e Curtis, Georgina Pell (1961). The American Catholic Who's Who. Vol. XIV. Grosse Pointe, Michigan: Walter Romig.
  6. ^ a b c d e f g h i j "John Joseph Cardinal Carberry". Catholic-Hierarchy.org.[self-published source]
  7. ^ "St. Peter's Church". Archived from the original on 2010-06-08. Retrieved 2010-05-28.
  8. ^ St. Patrick's Church
  9. ^ Immaculate Conception Seminary
  10. ^ "Brooklyn Priest Named As a Bishop in Indiana". The New York Times. 1956-05-10.
  11. ^ a b c "New Bishop for St. Louis". TIME Magazine. 1968-03-01. Archived from the original on October 29, 2010.
  12. ISSN 0362-4331
    . Retrieved 2022-04-09.
  13. TIME Magazine. 1978-07-17. Archived from the original
    on September 4, 2009.
  14. TIME Magazine. 1969-04-04. Archived from the original
    on December 14, 2008.
  15. ^ "St. Louis Post-Dispatch from St. Louis, Missouri on January 30, 1981 · Page 38". Newspapers.com. Retrieved 2017-12-26.
  16. ISBN 9780190634322
    .
  17. ^ Ganahl, Richard (2017-03-24). "Did A Notre Dame Study Really Close McBride HS?". McBride Mania. Retrieved 2017-07-11.
  18. ^ Jost, Ashley. "Fontbonne University set to buy Kennedy Catholic High School". stltoday.com. Retrieved 2017-12-26.
  19. ^ a b "1946-1994: The St. Louis Church in the Modern World". Roman Catholic Archdiocese of St. Louis. Archived from the original on 2013-02-26.
  20. TIME Magazine. 1977-05-16. Archived from the original
    on November 2, 2012.
  21. ^ Dick, John A. (2009-01-21). "Cleric who shaped U.S. 'pastoral church' dead at 99". National Catholic Reporter. Archived from the original on 2012-07-11.
  22. TIME Magazine. 1973-01-22. Archived from the original
    on December 14, 2008.
  23. ^ "Archbishop John Lawrence May". Catholic-Hierarchy.org.[self-published source]

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Preceded by Archbishop of St. Louis
1968–1979 		Succeeded by
Preceded by Bishop of Columbus
1965–1968 		Succeeded by
Preceded by Bishop of Lafayette in Indiana
1957–1965 		Succeeded by
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