English Catholic prelate (1905–1975)
John Carmel Heenan (26 January 1905 – 7 November 1975) was a senior-ranking English prelate of the Catholic Church . He served as Archbishop of Westminster from 1963 until his death, and was elevated to the cardinalate in 1965.[ 1]
Early life and ordination [ edit ] John Heenan was born in Ilford , Essex , the youngest of four children of Irish parents John and Anne Heenan (née Pilkington). He auditioned for Westminster Cathedral Choir School at age 9, but Sir Richard Terry rejected him for his "metallic voice".[ 2] Heenan studied at St. Ignatius College in Stamford Hill , Ushaw College in Durham , and the Venerable English College in Rome before being ordained to the priesthood on 6 July 1930. He then did pastoral work in Brentwood until 1947, at which time he became Superior of the Catholic Missionary Society of England and Wales . In this position, Heenan criticized the United States for being too concerned about communism, and not enough about spiritual matters.[ 3] By this time he had published a biography (1943) of Cardinal Hinsley , Archbishop of Westminster, who had recently died.
On 27 January 1951, Heenan was appointed the fifth Bishop of Leeds by Pope Pius XII . He received his episcopal consecration on the following 12 March from Archbishop William Godfrey , Apostolic Delegate to Great Britain , with Joseph McCormack , Bishop of Hexham and Newcastle , and John Petit , Bishop of Menevia , serving as co-consecrators . Named the sixth Archbishop of Liverpool on 2 May 1957, Heenan was later appointed the eighth Archbishop of Westminster on 2 September 1963. As Archbishop of Westminster, he served as the spiritual leader of the Catholic Church in England and Wales . In 1968, Heenan was elected President of the Catholic Bishops' Conference of England and Wales .
Positions during the Second Vatican Council [ edit ] A participant of the Second Vatican Council (1962–1965), Heenan showed himself to be of a conservative mind. He opposed Gaudium et spes , the council's constitution on the church in the modern world, saying that it had been "written by clerics with no knowledge of the world".[ 4] He also condemned the periti , or theological experts, who sought to change the church's doctrine on birth control .[ 4] Moreover, despite the risks to ecumenism , Heenan later supported the canonization of the forty martyrs .[ 5]
He was created Cardinal-Priest of S. Silvestro in Capite by Pope Paul VI in the consistory of 22 February 1965.
He died from a heart attack in London[ 6] at age 70, and is buried in Westminster Cathedral, under the twelfth Station of the Cross ("Jesus dies on the Cross ").
Heenan shared a lengthy correspondence with author Evelyn Waugh regarding the Second Vatican Council. A compilation of their letters, A Bitter Trial: Evelyn Waugh and John Carmel Cardinal Heenan on the Liturgical Changes , was first published in 1996 and reprinted in an expanded edition in 2011.[ 7]
"A church that is half empty is half full."[ 8] "At home it is not only women and children but also fathers of families and young men who come regularly to mass. If we were to offer them the kind of ceremony we saw yesterday in the Sistine Chapel we would soon be left with a congregation mostly of women and children."[ 9]
Parishes Leeds Cathedral - Cathedral Church of St Anne Blessed John Henry Newman, Leeds Holy Redeemer, Huddersfield St Edward's, Clifford St Ignatius, Ossett St Jeanne Jugan, Leeds St Joseph's, Bradford St Austin's and English Martyrs, Wakefield St Mary's, Halifax St Patrick's, Leeds St Robert's, Harrogate St Wilfrid's Church, Ripon St Stephen's, Skipton St Joseph's Wetherby Leeds Trinity University Schools All Saints, Huddersfield Cardinal Heenan, Meanwood Corpus Christi, Leeds Leeds Trinity University Mount St Mary's, Leeds Notre Dame, Leeds St Bede's & St Joseph's, Bradford St Catherine's, Halifax St John Fisher, Dewsbury St John Fisher, Harrogate St John's School for the Deaf, Boston Spa St Mary's Menston St Thomas à Becket, Wakefield St Wilfrid's, Featherstone
Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Liverpool
Churches Liverpool Metropolitan Cathedral - Metropolitan Cathedral of Christ the King Church of St Oswald and St Edmund Arrowsmith, Ashton-in-Makerfield St Mary's Church, Billinge St Joseph's Church, Birkdale Church of St Teresa of Avila, Birkdale Church of St Monica, Bootle St Michael's Church, Ditton St Mary of the Isle Church, Douglas St Anne's Church, Edge Hill Sacred Heart Church, Hindsford Church of the Holy Family, Ince Blundell St John the Evangelist's Church, Kirkdale St Joseph's Church, Leigh St Mary's Church, Little Crosby Our Lady of the Annunciation Church, Liverpool Our Lady of Mount Carmel Church, Liverpool Church of Our Lady of Reconciliation, Liverpool Sacred Heart Church, Liverpool St Aloysius Church, Liverpool St Anthony's Church, Scotland Road St Anthony of Padua Church, Liverpool St Clare's Church, Liverpool St Francis Xavier Church, Liverpool St Mary's Church, Woolton St Oswald's Church, Liverpool St Patrick's Church, Liverpool St Philip Neri Church, Liverpool Church of St Vincent de Paul, Liverpool St Oswald's Church, Padgate Our Lady Help of Christians Church, Portico Our Lady Immaculate and St Joseph Church, Prescot St Bartholomew's Church, Rainhill Our Lady, Star of the Sea & St Maughold Church, Ramsey Our Lady Star of the Sea, Seaforth Church of St Mary, Lowe House Holy Cross Church, St Helens St Ambrose's Church, Speke St Alban's Church, Warrington St Benedict's Church, Warrington St Mary's Church, Warrington St Bede's Church, Widnes St John's Church, Wigan St Jude's Church, Wigan St Mary's Church, Wigan Schools St Mary's College, Crosby The Academy of St Francis of Assisi The Academy of St Nicholas All Hallows Catholic High School All Saints Catholic High School, Kirkby Archbishop Beck Catholic College Bellerive FCJ Catholic College Broughton Hall High School Cardinal Heenan Catholic High School Carmel College (St Helens) Christ the King Catholic High School, Southport De La Salle School, St Helens Holy Cross Catholic High School, Chorley Holy Family Catholic High School, Thornton Hope Academy Maricourt Catholic School Notre Dame Catholic College, Liverpool Our Lady Queen of Peace Catholic Engineering College Sacred Heart Catholic College St Augustine of Canterbury Catholic Academy St Bede's Catholic High School, Ormskirk St Cuthbert's Catholic High School St Edmund Arrowsmith Catholic Academy, Whiston St Edmund Arrowsmith Catholic High School, Ashton-in-Makerfield St Edward's College St Francis Xavier's College, Liverpool St John Bosco Arts College St John Fisher Catholic High School, Wigan St Julie's Catholic High School St Mary's Catholic High School, Astley St Mary's Catholic High School, Leyland St Peter's Catholic High School Saints Peter and Paul Catholic High School The Salesian Academy of St John Bosco
Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Westminster
Churches St Mary of the Angels, Bayswater St Casimir, Bethnal Green Benson Memorial Church Brompton Oratory Holy Trinity, Brook Green St Mary, Cadogan Street Our Lady of Hal, Camden Town Our Lady of the Rosary and St Dominic, Camden Our Lady of Dolours, Chelsea Our Most Holy Redeemer and St Thomas More, Chelsea Our Lady of Grace and St Edward, Chiswick St Peter, Clerkenwell St Etheldreda, Ely Place Immaculate Conception, Farm Street Our Lady of Perpetual Help, Fulham St Thomas of Canterbury, Fulham St Andrew Bobola, Hammersmith St Augustine, Hammersmith St Theodore, Hampton St Francis de Sales, Hampton Hill and Upper Teddington Our Lady and St Thomas of Canterbury, Harrow Our Lady Queen of Apostles, Heston St Joseph, Highgate St Monica, Hoxton Our Lady of Mount Carmel and St Simon Stock, Kensington Our Lady of Victories, Kensington Sacred Heart, Kilburn St Hugh of Lincoln, Letchworth St Anselm and St Cecilia, Lincoln's Inn Fields Corpus Christi, Maiden Lane St Mary Moorfields Mary Immaculate and St Peter, New Barnet Notre Dame de France St Monica, Palmer's Green St Alban and St Stephen, St Albans St Patrick, Soho Square St Anselm, Southall St James, Spanish Place St Ignatius, Stamford Hill St Mary and St Michael, Stepney Sacred Heart, Teddington English Martyrs, Tower Hill St James, Twickenham St Margaret of Scotland, Twickenham Holy Rood, Watford St Mary Magdalen, Whetstone St Edmund of Canterbury, Whitton Patronal Feasts of the Diocese Schools Our Lady of Lourdes School, Arnos Grove Sacred Heart Primary School, Teddington All Saints Catholic College, North Kensington St Edmund's Roman Catholic Primary School Bishop Challoner Catholic School Bishop Douglass Catholic School Cardinal Pole Catholic School Cardinal Vaughan Memorial School The Cardinal Wiseman Catholic School, Greenford The Douay Martyrs School St Augustine's Priory, Ealing St Benedict's School, Ealing Finchley Catholic High School Gumley House Convent School Gunnersbury Boys' School John F Kennedy Catholic School The John Henry Newman School La Sainte Union Catholic School London Oratory School Loreto College, St Albans Maria Fidelis Roman Catholic Convent School Mount House School Newman Catholic College Nicholas Breakspear School Our Lady's Catholic High School, Stamford Hill Sacred Heart High School, Hammersmith Sacred Heart Language College St Anthony's School, Hampstead St Aloysius' College, Highgate St Angela's Ursuline School St Anne's Catholic High School St Claudine's Catholic School for Girls St Dominic's Sixth Form College St George's Catholic School St Gregory's Catholic Science College St Ignatius College, Enfield St James' Catholic High School, Colindale St Joan of Arc Catholic School, Rickmansworth St Mary's Catholic School, Bishop's Stortford St Mark's Catholic School, Hounslow St Michael's Catholic Grammar School St Michael's Catholic High School St Columba's College, St Albans St Paul's College, Sunbury-on-Thames St Richard Reynolds Catholic College Salvatorian College St Thomas More Language College St Catherine's School, Twickenham St Edmund's College, Ware Westminster Cathedral Choir School St Thomas More Catholic School, Wood Green
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