November 2, 1970(1970-11-02) (aged 75) Boston, Massachusetts
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Auxiliary Bishop of Boston (1939-1944)
Motto
Ut Cognoscant Te (That they may know thee)
Coat of arms
Ordination history of Richard Cushing
History
Episcopal consecration
Consecrated by
William Henry O'Connell (Boston)
Date
June 29, 1939
Episcopal succession
Bishops consecrated by Richard Cushing as principal consecrator
Edward Francis Ryan
January 3, 1945
Louis Francis Kelleher
June 8, 1945
John Joseph Wright
June 30, 1947
Eric Francis MacKenzie
September 14, 1950
Thomas Francis Markham
September 14, 1950
Jeremiah Francis Minihan
September 8, 1954
George Hamilton Pearce
June 29, 1956
Harold William Henry
May 11, 1957
Jaime Antônio Schuck
February 24, 1959
Thomas Joseph Riley
December 21, 1959
William John McNaughton
August 21, 1961
Samuel Emmanuel Carter
April 25, 1966
James Burke, O.P.
May 25, 1967
Daniel Anthony Cronin
September 12, 1968
Richard James Cushing (August 24, 1895 – November 2, 1970) was an American prelate of the Catholic Church. He served as Archbishop of Boston from 1944 to 1970 and was made a cardinal in 1958. Cushing's main role was as fundraiser and builder of new churches, schools, and institutions. Unlike his predecessor, he was on good terms with practically the entire Boston elite, as he softened the traditional confrontation between the Catholic Irish and the Protestant upper-class. He built useful relationships with Jews, Protestants, and institutions outside the usual Catholic community. He helped presidential candidate John F. Kennedy deflect fears of papal interference in American government if a Catholic became president.
Cushing's high energy level allowed him to meet with many people all day, often giving lengthy speeches at night. He was not efficient at business affairs, and when expenses built up he counted on his fundraising skills instead of cost-cutting. Cushing, says Nasaw, was "fun-loving, informal, and outgoing. He looked rather like a tough, handsome, Irish cop and behaved more like a ward politician than a high church cleric."[1] His major weakness in retrospect was overexpansion, adding new institutions that could not be sustained in the long run and had to be cut back by his successors.[2]
^David Nasaw, The Patriarch: The Remarkable Life and Turbulent Times of Joseph P. Kennedy (2012) pp 625-27
^Robert Muccigrosso, ed., Research Guide to American Historical Biography (1988) 5:2466-9
Richard James Cushing (August 24, 1895 – November 2, 1970) was an American prelate of the Catholic Church. He served as Archbishop of Boston from 1944...
aunt Maude Cushing (his father's sister) and his step-uncle Wilton Herriot, after whom Peter Cushing received his middle name. The Cushing family lived...
A bust of RichardCushing by James Rosati, sometimes called Richard Cardinal Cushing, is installed in Boston's Cardinal Cushing Memorial Park, in the...
mass was held on August 10, 1963 in the private chapel of Cardinal RichardCushing in Boston. The president's mother Rose Kennedy was in Paris and was...
(formerly known as "St. Coletta Institute for Backward Youth"). Archbishop RichardCushing of Boston had told her father about St. Coletta's, an institution for...
Cushing tabbed the Rev. Vincent McQuade, O.S.A, to lead the college. McQuade was a native of Lawrence, Massachusetts and longtime friend of Cushing....
Newport, Rhode Island, in a mass celebrated by Boston's Archbishop RichardCushing. The wedding was considered the social event of the season with an...
Archbishop RichardCushing and with funding from the Kennedy family, the center was one of the first of its kind in the nation, and was renamed in Cushing's honor...
An imprimi potest, a nihil obstat and an imprimatur (by RichardCushing) on a book published by Random House in 1953. The book in question is the English...
Fitzpatrick Archbishops John Joseph Williams William Henry O'Connell RichardCushing Humberto Sousa Medeiros Bernard Francis Law Seán Patrick O'Malley Auxiliary...
named after Cardinal RichardCushing, who helped acquire the land for its campus while he was Archbishop of Boston. Cardinal Cushing College was one of...
Zafarullah Khan, President of the UN General Assembly, American Cardinals RichardCushing and Francis Spellman and also Nelson Rockefeller as Governor of New...
bust of RichardCushing. "Parks and Playgrounds". City of Boston. 13 October 2017. Retrieved November 14, 2019. Media related to Cardinal Cushing Memorial...
Feeney criticized Cushing for, among other things, accepting the church's definition of "baptism of desire". Finally, in 1949, Cushing declared Feeney's...
Hall Chapel on the Brighton Campus, and St. Catherine of Sienna Chapel in Cushing Hall. Over 70 Catholic Masses are celebrated on Campus each week during...
Boston on September 8, 1970, at the request of and in succession to RichardCushing. He was installed on October 7 of that year. The appointment of Medeiros...
by the Sisters of Saint Anne, after receiving formal approval from RichardCushing, the Archbishop of Boston. The original campus was in Marlborough,...
America. Retrieved April 2, 2018. A few years later, in 1964, Cardinal RichardCushing of Boston (who, as archbishop, had even endorsed a Graham crusade in...
the same year, the OAB received the official imprimatur of Cardinal RichardCushing for use by Roman Catholics as a study Bible. Later, the NOAB was also...
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