Michael Browne (cardinal)

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|type = Cardinal

|honorific_prefix = His Eminence

|name = Michael Cardinal Browne

|image = Michael_Browne_(cardinal).jpg

|alt = Cardinal Browne in 1962

|caption = Cardinal Browne in 1962

|honorific_suffix = O.P.

|title = Cardinal-Deacon of San Paolo alla Regola

|church = Roman Catholic Church

|appointed = 22 March 1962

|term_end = 31 March 1971

|predecessor = Giuseppe Fietta

|successor = Francesco Monterisi

|other_post = Cardinal Protodeacon (1971)

|ordination = 21 May 1910

|consecration = 19 April 1962

|consecrated_by = Pope John XXIII

|cardinal = 19 March 1962

|created_cardinal_by = Pope John XXIII

|rank = Cardinal-Deacon

|birth_name = Michael Browne

|birth_date = {{Birth date|df=yes|1887|05|06}}{{Cite news |date=1 April 1971 |title=Michael Cardinal Browne Dies; Tradition's Voice at Vatican II |work=The New York Times |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1971/04/01/archives/michael-cardinal-browne-dies-traditions-voice-at-vatican-ii.html |url-status=live |access-date=3 July 2022 |page=44|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220703192012/https://www.nytimes.com/1971/04/01/archives/michael-cardinal-browne-dies-traditions-voice-at-vatican-ii.html |archive-date=3 July 2022}}

|birth_place = Grangemockler, County Tipperary, Ireland

|death_date = {{Death date and age|df=yes|1971|03|31|1887|05|06}}

|death_place = Santo Stefano Rotondo Hospital, Rome, Italy

|previous_post = {{unbulleted list|Rector Magnificus of the Angelicum (1932–41)|Master of the Apostolic Palaces (1951–55)|Master of the Order of Preachers (1955–62)|Titular Archbishop of Idebessus (1962)}}

|alma_mater =

|motto = Viae tuae veritas

|coat_of_arms = Coat of arms of Michael Browne.svg }}

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Michael Cardinal Browne, O.P. (born David Browne,{{cite book|last=O'Brien|first=Máire|title=The Same Age as the State|year=2004|publisher=The University of Wisconsin Press|isbn=0299210308}} 6 May 1887 – 31 March 1971), was an Irish priest of the Dominican Order and a cardinal of the Roman Catholic Church. He served as Master General of the Dominicans from 1955 to 1962, and was elevated to the cardinalate in 1962.

Early Biography

Michael Browne was born in Grangemockler, County Tipperary.

Formation

Browne joined the Order of Friars Preachers, commonly known as the Dominicans, in 1903. After studying at Rockwell College, the Dominican convent at the Basilica of San Clemente in Rome, and the University of Fribourg, he was ordained to the priesthood on 21 May 1910.

Career

Browne taught at the Dominican convent in Tallaght, Dublin, where he was Master of Novices until 1919 when he was appointed professor at the Pontifical University of Saint Thomas Aquinas, Angelicum in Rome.

Browne served as Prior of the convent of St. Clemente from 1925 to 1930.

He was the Angelicum's rector magnificus from 1932 to 1941

Browne was appointed Master of the Sacred Palace from 1951 to 1955.

He became Master General of the Dominicans on 11 April 1955, remaining in that position until his resignation in 1962. He was created Cardinal-Deacon of San Paolo alla Regola by Pope John XXIII in the consistory of 19 March 1962, appointed Titular Archbishop of Idebessus on 5 April 1962, and consecrated as bishop on 19 April by John XXIII, with Cardinals Giuseppe Pizzardo and Benedetto Aloisi Masella serving as co-consecrators, in the Lateran Basilica.

Browne attended the Second Vatican Council from 1962 to 1965. A Traditionalist Catholic, he was opposed to the reforms of the Council (including religious libertyLefebvre, Marcel. "Religious Liberty Questioned". Kansas City: Angelus Press, 2002.) and was a friend of Archbishop Marcel Lefebvre.SSPX, District of Asia. [http://www.sspxasia.com/Documents/Society_of_Saint_Pius_X/OpenLetterToConfusedCatholics/Chapter-9.htm The New Theology] 1998 He was one of the cardinal electors who participated in the 1963 papal conclave that elected Pope Paul VI. From 20 January 1971 until his death, Browne served as Cardinal Protodeacon.

He died in Rome, at age 83, and was buried in the priory cemetery in Tallaght, County Dublin, Ireland.

Family

His brother was Pádraig Monsignor de Brún, a notable priest, poet and scholar, and he was an uncle of Máire Mhac an tSaoi, scholar, poet, wife of Irish diplomat, writer and politician Conor Cruise O'Brien, and daughter of his sister, Margaret Browne and her husband, the Irish revolutionary and statesman Seán MacEntee.

={{anchor|Joseph Brady}}{{anchor|Maurice Browne}}The Big Sycamore=

The Big Sycamore (1958)

{{cite book

|author= Joseph Brady (aka Maurice Browne)

|title= The Big Sycamore

|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=UM2GAAAAIAAJ

|access-date= 3 September 2014

|year= 1958

|publisher= M.H. Gill, Dublin

|oclc=1999792

|asin=B000RHST5Y

|quote= Autobiographical and fictionalized account of an Irish family, the Fitzgeralds.

}} is a fictionalised account of the early life of the future Cardinal Browne and his family, fictionalised as 'the Fitzgeralds' (his mother's maiden name was Kate Fitzgerald). It was written (under the pen-name Joseph Brady) by another of his brothers, Maurice Monsignor Browne (1892-1979), parish priest of Ballymore Eustace, County Kildare, and Hollywood, County Wicklow, and the author of plays such as Prelude to Victory (1950),

{{cite book

|author= Joseph Brady (Playwright.) (aka Maurice Browne)

|title= Prelude to Victory. A Play in Three Acts

|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=9RMQMwEACAAJ

|access-date= 3 September 2014

|year= 1950

|publisher= Duffy, Dublin

|oclc=13803772

|asin=B0000CHZRL

}}

and novels such as In Monavalla (1963)

{{cite book

|author= Joseph Brady (Playwright.) (aka Maurice Browne)

|title= In Monavalla [A Novel.].

|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=hKYnMwEACAAJ

|access-date= 3 September 2014

|year= 1963

|publisher= Gill & Son, Dublin

|oclc=13441411

|asin=B001FT4WXG

|quote=

}}1st alternative OCLC: [https://www.worldcat.org/oclc/862280 862280]; 2nd alternative OCLC: [https://www.worldcat.org/oclc/771290564 771290564]

and From a Presbytery Window (1971),

{{cite book

|author= Joseph Brady (aka Maurice Browne)

|title= From a presbytery window

|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=e3KMAAAACAAJ

|access-date= 3 September 2014

|year= 1971

|publisher= Talbot Press, Dublin

|isbn= 978-0854520152

|oclc=725049

}}

as well as the afore-mentioned The Big Sycamore.{{Cite web|title=Monsignor Maurice Browne|url=http://homepage.eircom.net/~mattpurcell/monsbrowne.htm |author=Matt Purcell |date=1997|access-date=3 September 2014}}