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Merton and Cardinal Wright exchange correspondence about the pastoral constitution at the Second Vatican Council entitled, "Gaudium et Spes" (On the Church in the Modern World). Wright passed along Merton's essays on peace and against nuclear war to periti (theological advisors) at the Council.
John Joseph Cardinal Wright was Bishop of Pittsburgh at the time of writing to Merton. During their correspondence in the mid-1960's, the Second Vatican Council was in session, Wright spent much time in Rome. Born in Boston, he became the first bishop of the Worcester diocese after it split from the Springfield, Massachusetts, diocese in 1950. After serving ten years in Pittsburgh, he was elevated to cardinal in 1969 and made the Prefect of Clergy for the Roman Curia.
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See also published letters from Merton to Wright in The Hidden Ground of Love, pp. 607-611.
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1964/01/10 |
TL[c] from Merton |
My friend Father Reinhold tells me that he has given you my mimeograph on peace, and that you |
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1964/02/20 |
TL[c] from Merton |
Thank you for your kind letter telling me you had given the Peace mimeograph to some of the periti |
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1965/01/11 |
TLS to Merton |
I received the recent manuscripts which you sent me and I hasten to acknowledge them now lest I |
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1965/07/17 |
TL[c] from Merton |
I realize that it was perhaps presumptuous of me to draft the enclosed notes, which I have sent |
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1972/12/10 |
HLS to Center from Wright, Cardinal |
At this distance from my Worcester and Pittsburgh files, I cannot give to use any correspondence |
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1973/01/25 |
TL[c] from Center to Wright, Cardinal |
Thank you for your kind letter of December 10, 1972. Your instructions with regard to your |
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undated/no/no |
HPCS to Merton |
Fr. Bruno James speaks with prayerful affection of you! I commend his wonderful work here to your |
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[verso: color photograph of Naples]
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other |
JOHN J. WRIGHT [-] Born in Boston, John J. Wright, was ordained to the priesthood in 1938. |
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undated/no/no |
HCS to Merton |
You letter of Sept. 10 reached me here in Rome long before the debate on the subject close to your |
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[verso: color reproduction of Michelangelo's "Pietá"]
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