Cooney had agreed to talk further about the editorial aspects of the book. ''With regard to John Cooney's biography of Francis Cardinal Spellman, the author has done a vast amount of fact checking and we have done extensive editorial review, which is continuing.''Īsked what Times Books would do if the author failed to supply the required substantiation, Mr. ''We feel we have a responsibility not to publish damaging allegations which cannot be substantiated or which are based on hearsay,'' said Joseph Consolino, president and publisher of Times Books. The book is ''The American Pope: The Life and Times of Francis Cardinal Spellman,'' by John Cooney, scheduled for publication by Times Books in October. The author of a forthcoming biography of Francis Cardinal Spellman is being required by his publisher to substantiate assertions, contained in the bound galleys of the book that were recently distributed to reviewers, that the late Cardinal was a homosexual whose sex life ''was a source of profound embarrassment and shame to many priests.''
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