John O'Connor (cardinal)

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Auxiliary Bishop of the Archdiocese for the Military Services) (1979–1983)
Alma mater
MottoThere Can Be No Love Without Justice
Military career
Allegiance United States
Service/branch United States Navy
Years of service1952–1979
Rank Rear admiral
Commands heldChief of Chaplains of the Navy
Battles/warsKorean War
Ordination history of
John O'Connor
History
Priestly ordination
PlaceCathedral Basilica of Saints Peter and Paul Edit this on Wikidata, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania Edit this on Wikidata, United States Edit this on Wikidata
Episcopal consecration
Consecrated byPope John Paul II
DateMay 27, 1979
PlaceSt. Peter's Basilica Edit this on Wikidata, Rome Edit this on Wikidata, Italy Edit this on Wikidata
Episcopal succession
Bishops consecrated by John O'Connor as principal consecrator
Alfred JolsonFebruary 6, 1988
Patrick SheridanDecember 12, 1990
James Michael MoynihanMay 29, 1995
Edwin Frederick O'BrienMarch 25, 1996
Robert Anthony BrucatoAugust 25, 1997
James Francis McCarthyJune 29, 1999

John Joseph O'Connor (January 15, 1920 – May 3, 2000) was an

cardinal
in 1985.

O'Connor previously served as a U.S. Navy chaplain (1952 to 1979), including four years as chief of chaplains, as an auxiliary bishop of the Military Vicariate of the United States (1979 to 1983), and as bishop of the Diocese of Scranton in Pennsylvania (1983 to 1984).

Biography

Early life

John O'Connor was born in

Jewish rabbi.[1] In 2014, it was discovered that Dorothy was baptized a Catholic at age 19 and that the couple wed one year later.[2]

O'Connor attended public schools in Philadelphia until his junior year of high school, when he enrolled in West Philadelphia Catholic High School for Boys. Having decided to become a priest, he then enrolled at St. Charles Borromeo Seminary in Wynnewood, Pennsylvania.[3][4]

Priesthood

After graduating from St. Charles, O'Connor was ordained a

priest for the Archdiocese of Philadelphia on December 15, 1945, in Philadelphia by Auxiliary Bishop Hugh L. Lamb. After his 1945 ordination, the archdiocese assigned O'Connor as a faculty member at St. James High School in Chester, Pennsylvania.[5][6] During this seven-year period, O'Connor obtained a Master of Arts degree in advanced ethics from Villanova University in Philadelphia and a Master of Arts degree in clinical psychology from the Catholic University of America in Washington, D.C.[7]

Rear Admiral O'Connor in the US Navy Chaplain Corps

O'Connor joined the

honorary prelate of his holiness on October 27, 1966.[10]

O'Connor received a doctorate in political science from Georgetown University in Washington, D.C., where he studied under future United Nations ambassador Jeane Kirkpatrick.[11] Kirkpatrick said of O'Connor that he was "... surely one of the two or three smartest graduate students I've ever had."[12]

Auxiliary Bishop of the Military Vicariate US

On April 24, 1979,

episcopate on May 27, 1979, at St. Peter's Basilica in Rome by John Paul himself, with Cardinals Duraisamy Lourdusamy and Eduardo Somalo
acting as co-consecrators.

Bishop of Scranton

On May 6, 1983, John Paul II named O'Connor as bishop of Scranton; he was installed in that position on June 29, 1983.[14][5]

Archbishop of New York

Styles of
John O'Connor
His Eminence
Spoken styleYour Eminence
Informal styleCardinal
SeeNew York

On January 26, 1984, after the death of Cardinal Terence Cooke, O'Connor was appointed archbishop of New York and administrator of the Military Vicariate by John Paul II; O'Connor was installed on March 19, 1984.[6][5]

O'Connor was elevated to

Archbishop of New York from 1946 to 2009).[6]

On December 10, 1989, 4,500 members of ACT UP and Women's Health Action and Mobilization (WHAM) demonstrated at St. Patrick's Cathedral in Manhattan to voice their opposition to O'Connor's positions on HIV/AIDS education, the distribution of condoms in public schools, and abortion rights for women. Polices arrested 43 protestors from inside the cathedral.[15]

Illness and death

When O'Connor reached the retirement age for bishops of 75 years in January 1995, he submitted his resignation to Pope John Paul II as required by canon law.[16] However the pope did not accept the resignation.[17] O'Connor was diagnosed in 1999 with a brain tumor. He continued to serve as Archbishop of New York until his death.

O'Connor died in the archbishop's residence in Manhattan on May 3, 2000. He was interred in the crypt beneath the main altar of

Bernard F. Law delivered the homily and Cardinal William W. Baum the eulogy.[19]
Attendees at O'Connor's funeral included:

Legacy

Congressional Gold Medal awarded to O'Connor
  • The John Cardinal O'Connor Pavilion in the Bronx, a residence for retired priests, opened in 2003.[13]
  • The John Cardinal O'Connor School in
    learning differences, opened in 2009.[20]
  • The Cardinal O'Connor Conference on Life is held annually at Georgetown University.[21]

The New York Times called O'Connor "a familiar and towering presence, a leader whose views and personality were forcefully injected into the great civic debates of his time, a man who considered himself a conciliator, but who never hesitated to be a combatant", and one of the Catholic Church's "most powerful symbols on moral and political issues."[5]

According to New York City Mayor Ed Koch: "Cardinal O'Connor was a great man, but he was like the Pentagon. He was incapable of saving money."[22]

Awards

Viewpoints

Human life

O'Connor was a forceful opponent of abortion, human cloning, capital punishment, human trafficking, and unjust war.[25][26]

  • O'Connor in 1996 assailed what he called the "horror of euthanasia", asking rhetorically, "What makes us think that permitted lawful suicide will not become obligated suicide?"[27]
  • In 2000, O'Connor called for a "major overhaul" of the punitive
    Rockefeller drug laws in New York State, which he believed produced "grave injustices".[28]

US foreign policy

Organized labor

In 1984,

press conference. O'Connor declined to admit them, directing his secretary to "tell them they're not invited."[35]

Following O'Connor's death in 2002 , SEIU 1199 called him "the patron saint of working people". It described his support for low-wage and other workers, his efforts in helping the limousine drivers unionize, his help in mediating a labor strike at

The Daily News, and his pushing for fringe benefits for minimum-wage home health care workers.[36]

Relations with Jewish community

  • In 1987, Nobel Laureate Elie Wiesel called O'Connor, "a good Christian" and a man "who understands our pain."[37]
  • O'Connor in 1996 strongly denounced
    anti-Semitism, declaring that one "cannot be a faithful Christian and an anti-Semite. They are incompatible, because anti-Semitism is a sin."[38] He wrote an apology to Jewish leaders in New York City for past harm committed by the Catholic Church to the Jewish community.[39]
  • In 1998, O'Connor criticized the failure of Swiss banks to compensate Jewish Holocaust victims whose stolen assets had been deposited in Switzerland during World War II by German Nazi leaders. He called it "a human rights issue, an issue of the human race."[40] Even when disagreeing with him over political questions, Jewish leaders acknowledged that O'Connor was "a friend, a powerful voice against anti-Semitism".[41]
  • The Jewish Council for Public Affairs in 2000 called O'Connor "a true friend and champion of Catholic–Jewish relations, [and] a humanitarian who used the power of his pulpit to advocate for disadvantaged people throughout the world and in his own community."[42]

Relations with the LGBT community

See also: Catholic Church and homosexuality

HIV/AIDS

In the early 1980s, O'Connor opened a specialized HIV/AIDS medical unit in

ACT UP (AIDS Coalition to Unleash Power) protested in front of St. Patrick's Cathedral in 1987, holding placards such as "Cardinal O'Connor Loves Gay People ... If They Are Dying of AIDS."[43]

O'Connor made an effort to minister to 1,000 people dying of

Saint Vincent's Catholic Medical Center, where he cleaned the sores and emptied the bedpans of more than 1,100 patients. According to reports, O'Connor was popular with the Saint Vincent's patients, many of whom did not know he was the archbishop, and was supportive of other priests who ministered to gay men and others with HIV/AIDS.[45] [44]

In 1987, US President

HIV-positive patients, on-demand treatment for those with substance abuse problems, and the speeding of HIV/AIDS-related research.[49] The New York Times praised the commission's "remarkable strides" and its proposed $2 billion campaign against HIV/AIDS among drug users.[50]

Hate crimes against LGBTQ

O'Connor led the 1990 funeral mass at St. Joseph's Church in Staten Island for James Zappalorti, a murdered gay man.[51] O'Connor later endorsed a statewide hate crime law that included crimes motivated by sexual orientation, which passed shortly after his own death in 2000.[52]

Job discrimination against LGBTQ

O'Connor actively opposed an attempt by the City of New York to outlaw sexual discrimination by its contractors. In 1980, Mayor Ed Koch issued Executive Order 50, which required all city contractors, including religious entities, to provide services on a non-discriminatory basis with respect to race, creed, age, sex, handicap, as well as "sexual orientation or affectational preference".[53]

When the city warned

Catholic New York in January 1985, O'Connor characterized the order as "an exceedingly dangerous precedent [that would] invite unacceptable governmental intrusion into and excessive entanglement with the Church's conducting of its own internal affairs." Drawing the traditional Catholic distinction between homosexual "inclinations" and "behavior", he stated that "we do not believe that homosexual behavior ... should be elevated to a protected category."[56]

We do not believe that religious agencies should be required to employ those engaging in or advocating homosexual behavior. We are willing to consider on a case-by-case basis the employment of individuals who have engaged in or may at some future time engage in homosexual behavior. We approach those who have engaged in or may engage in what the Church considers illicit heterosexual behavior the same way. ...We believe, however, that only a religious agency itself can properly determine the requirements of any particular job within that agency, and whether or not a particular individual meets or is reasonably likely to meet such requirements.[57]

After a protracted legal battle, the New York Court of Appeals in 1986 upheld lower court decisions striking down Executive Order 50.[58]

O'Connor opposed city and state legislation guaranteeing LGBTQ civil rights, including legislation prohibiting discrimination based upon sexual orientation in housing, public accommodations and employment.[59]

St. Patrick's Day parade and LGBTQ participation

O'Connor supported the 1993 decision by the

unconstitutional" because the parade was private, not public, and constituted "a pristine form of speech" as to which the parade sponsor had a right to control the content and tone.[62]

In 1987, O'Connor prohibited DignityUSA, an organization of LGBTq Catholics, from holding masses in parishes in the archdiocese.[63][64] After eight years of protests by the group, O'Connor started meeting with the DignityUSA twice a year.[65]

Condom use for HIV/AIDS prevention

See also:
encouraging sinful acts among others (other fertile heterosexual couples who might wrongly interpret his narrow support as license for their own contraception).[66][67]

O'Connor in 1993 stated that

ACT UP (AIDS Coalition to Unleash Power) criticized the cardinal's opinion,[69]
leading to confrontations between the group and O'Connor.

Theodore McCarrick

In April 1986, O'Connor strongly endorsed the appointment of Theodore McCarrick, then bishop of the Diocese of Metuchen, as archbishop of the Archdiocese of Newark.[70] However, In 1992 and 1993, O'Connor received several anonymous letters accusing McCarrick of sexually abusing seminarians, which he then shared with McCarrick.[71][72] In 1994, before a papal visit by Pope John Paul II to the United State, the apostolic nuncio to the U.S., Cardinal Agostino Cacciavillan, became concerned about the pope visiting Newark, He had heard rumors that McCarrick had engaged in inappropriate sexual behavior in Newark with seminarians. O'Connor conducted an investigation for Cacciavillan and concluded that there were "no impediments" to visiting that city.[73][74]

In October 1996, when two psychiatrists judged that a priest's charge of sexual abuse by McCarrick was credible, O'Connor remained skeptical.[75] That same month, however, he intervened to prevent a priest "too closely identified" with McCarrick from becoming an auxiliary bishop. O'Connor cited "a rather unsettled climate of opinion about certain issues" in Newark.[76]

In October 1999, when John Paul II was considering transferring McCarrick to a more important archdiocese, O'Connor wrote a letter to the apostolic nuncio to the U.S. and the

Congregation for Bishops. It summarized the charges against McCarrick, especially his repeatedly arrangement of seminarians and other men to share his bed anc concluded: "I regret that I would have to recommend very strongly against such promotion." According to reports, the pope did read the letter[77][78]

McCarrick learned about O'Connor's letter from contacts in the Curia.[79] In August 2000, several months after O'Connor's death, McCarrick sent a rebuttal to John Paul II, which allegedly convinced the pope to appoint him archbishop of Washington.[80][81] McCarrick resigned from the College of Cardinals in 2018 and was laicized in 2019.[82][83]

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Preceded by — TITULAR —
Bishop of Cursola
1979–1983 		Succeeded by
Preceded by Bishop of Scranton
1983–1984 		Succeeded by
Preceded by Roman Catholic Archbishop of New York
1984–2000 		Succeeded by
Cardinal-Priest of Santi Giovanni e Paolo

1985–2000
Military offices
Preceded by Chief of Chaplains of the United States Navy
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