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| | Unauthorized Portraits: The Drawings of Edward Sorel | Joseph Francis Spellman (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-28) |
 | | Which brings me to my favorite target: organized religion." At the time of this drawing, influential Catholic cardinal Joseph Francis Spellman, who had been military vicar general of the United States armed forces since 1939, was a dedicated anti-Communist and outspoken hawk on the issue of Vietnam. |
 | | Spellman had urged American intervention since 1955, but by the mid-1960s, his views were strongly criticized by American religious leaders and antiwar Catholics. |
 | | Spellman died, however, just as the poster was finished, rendering it unsaleable, as Americans remembered what an important spokesman he had been for the church. |
| www.npg.si.edu /exh/sorel/spell.htm (158 words) |
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