Future St. Louis Cardinal…

Sacred College, that is! This photograph from the 1922 Cathedral Preparatory Seminary yearbook shows a future Cardinal Archbishop of St. Louis. John J. Carberry (standing, fourth from left) was an outfielder on the baseball team through his high school and college years. Born in Brooklyn, he graduated from Cathedral College in 1924 and studied in Rome, where he was ordained in 1929. As a Brooklyn priest he spent much of his career teaching Canon Law in the seminary and working in the Diocesan Tribunal. In 1956 he was named Bishop of Lafayette, Indiana, and in 1965 he became Bishop of Columbus, Ohio. Three years later he was named Archbishop of St. Louis and in 1969 he became a Cardinal. He retired in 1979. Along with John McCloskey, who became the first American Cardinal in 1875, he was the second Brooklynite to be so honored. Along with George Mundelein in Chicago, he was the second priest of the Brooklyn Diocese to become a cardinal. The third is Anthony J. Bevilacqua, who comes from the Woodhaven section of Queens (whence also hails a certain blogging historian).