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Cooke, Terence James
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Cooke, Terence James, 1921–83, American Roman Catholic clergyman, b. New York City. He was ordained in 1945 after earning a B.A. from St. Joseph's Seminary in Yonkers, N.Y. In 1957, Cooke was named secretary to Francis Cardinal Spellman and then became vice chancellor of the archdiocese of New York (1958), chancellor (1961), and auxiliary bishop (1965). Appointed archbishop of New York (1968) and cardinal (1969), Cooke led a campaign in the United States against legalized abortion.


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The bell tolled out the tune of "We Shall Overcome" and big cars slid up to the entrance, and out of them climbed Attorney General Ramsey Clark, and Mrs John F Kennedy, and Richard Nixon, and Senator Eugene McCarthy, Governor and Mrs George Romney of Michigan, and Governor Nelson Rockefeller and Mayor John Lindsay of New York, the new Roman Catholic Archbishop Terence Cooke, Sidney Poitier, the Metropolitan Opera's Leontyne Price, Eartha Kitt, Sammy Davis, Jr, Bobby and Ethel Kennedy.
” Indeed, he is not the kingmaker that Cardinal Francis Spellman was; he lacks the New York chops of Cardinal Terence Cooke and the enormous personality and populism of Cardinal O’Connor.
Bishops' conference president Joseph Bernadin and Cardinal Terence Cooke testify before the House of Representatives committee on the amendment.
 
 
 
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