Maurice Feltin
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Paris (Emeritus ) |
Maurice Feltin (15 May 1883 – 27 September 1975) was a French
Archbishop of Paris from 1949 to 1966, and was elevated to the cardinalate in 1953 by Pope Pius XII
.
Biography
Born in
Légion d'honneur
.
On 19 December 1927, Feltin was appointed
Archbishop of Paris
.
He was created Cardinal Priest of Santa Maria della Pace by Pope Pius XII in the consistory of 12 January 1953. He was one of the cardinal electors who participated in the 1958 papal conclave and the 1963 papal conclave.
During the
conscientious objection in France, rejecting objections to the war by certain French Catholics. In anti-war Catholic circles, Feltin's actions were met with displeasure.[2]
He attended the Second Vatican Council from 1962 to 1965. He resigned as Paris' archbishop on 21 December 1966. After the first meeting between Church and Freemasonry which had been held on 11 April 1969 at the convent of the Divine Master in Ariccia, he was the protagonist of a series of public handshakes between high prelates of the Roman Catholic Church and the heads of Freemasonry.[3]
He died in
Notre Dame Cathedral
.
Trivia
- Feltin condemned the legend of Santa Claus, claiming that it debased the "Christian significance of Christmas".[4]
- In 1959, Feltin requested of the Worker-Priest movement be revived, albeit under strict controls; his request, however, was denied.[5]
- In 1963, Feltin denied Édith Piaf a religious funeral due to her controversial life.[6] However, on 10 October 2013, fifty years after her death, the Roman Catholic Church gave Piaf a memorial Mass in the St. Jean-Baptiste Church in Belleville, Paris, the parish into which she was born.
References
- ^ "Cardinal Feltin of France Dead; Archbishop Led Worker‐Priests".
- ^ Johnston-White, Rachel (2019). "A New Primacy of Conscience? Conscientious Objection, French Catholicism and the State during the Algerian War". Journal of Contemporary History. 54 (1): 112–138.
- ^ Sandro Magister (19 August 1999). "Tra il papa e il massone non c'è comunione" [There is no communion between the pope and the Mason] (in Italian). L'Espresso.
- ^ Time Magazine. Death to Santa Claus 7 January 1952
- ^ Time Magazine. End of the Worker-Priests 28 September 1959
- ^ Jeffries, Stuart (8 November 2003). "The love of a poet". The Guardian. Retrieved 19 July 2007.
External links
- Catholic-Hierarchy
- Cardinals of the Holy Roman Church Archived 13 April 2018 at archive.today
- Newspaper clippings about Maurice Feltin in the 20th Century Press Archives of the ZBW