forty martyrs. Cardinal 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 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. Quotes "A church that is half empty is half full." "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." See also References External links Cardinals of the Holy Roman Church profile 1905 births 1975 deaths Participants in the Second Vatican Council People from Ilford People educated at St Ignatius' College, Enfield Roman Catholic archbishops of Liverpool Roman Catholic archbishops of Westminster 20th-century Roman Catholic archbishops in the United Kingdom Cardinals created by Pope Paul VI Alumni of Ushaw College 20th-century British cardinals Roman Catholic bishops of Leeds English College, Rome alumni British Roman Catholic archbishops English people of Irish descent