Archbishop of Liverpool: Pope John XXIII Is a “Very Sick Man”
Dec. 15, 1962 - The Roman Catholic Archbishop of Liverpool, Dr. John Heenan, said today that Pope John XXIII (pictured with Jacqueline Kennedy in March) is “a very sick man but so very brave.” Dr. Heenan recently returned from the Vatican, where he attended the Ecumenical Council. In London, the mass-circulation newspaper News of the World asserted the 81-year-old Pope has cancer. The paper said the Pope himself knows that he has little time to live. It added: “If he lasts a