All Catholics living within the Greater-Boston region looked to Cardinal Richard Cushing for personal guidance on how best to live their lives during the tempestuous period from xxx to the days of xxx.
The cleric, Richard Cushing, had an impressive ability in fund-raising to provide financial assistance to poor, working-class Catholics, who were barely staying above water in the post-war years. Also, his congenial attitude facilitated the mending of broken fences between the local Catholic and Protestant civic leaders during the Depression years.
The following excerpts taken from the Lowell Sun shed some light on the man’s influence on those days of challenge and hardship.
