sentences:  Later, he came into the public eye before the Vatican's "Instruction with regard to the ordination of homosexual men" was released, arguing against Andrew R. Baker's article on the issue in "America".Francis Spellman, Cardinal Archbishop of New York, was long rumored to have been gay, according to a book by John Cooney, who said that many whom he interviewed took his homosexuality for granted.In addition, a book published in 1998 claims that during the Second World War, Spellman was carrying on a relationship with a chorus boy in the Broadway revue "One Touch of Venus".