Word: bishop
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...manner and place of Bishop Pike's death are symbolic of his life. His motives and goals were the burning light of curiosity, the examination of origins, the checking of premises, the questioning of absolutes. His personal dilemmas closely paralleled those of a troubled society: rigorous thinking v. religious orthodoxy, individual integrity v. institutional hypocrisy, compassion v. indifference...
...church maker as well. He lobbied successfully for Francis Spellman's appointment as archbishop of New York, and in 1939, when Chicago's George William Cardinal Mundelein died, F.D.R. had his hand-picked candidate for the nation's largest archdiocese. This time he failed. Chicago Auxiliary Bishop Bernard James Sheil, the Roosevelt choice, was bypassed because he had irritated too many others inside and outside the church. Last week, after Sheil's death at 83 of heart disease, friends attending his funeral fondly recalled the cause of that irritation: for half a century, particularly...
...receive promising assignments. He served as chaplain at the Cook County jail, as an assistant at Holy Name Cathedral and was named chancellor of the archdiocese in 1923. A year later, on his first visit to Rome, he was received by Pius XI, and in 1928 he was consecrated bishop...
Youth and Workers. By then the feisty Sheil was already showing anti-Establishment symptoms. Concerned about youth, too many of whom he had met in jail, he formed a club to keep them straight. The bishop's Catholic Youth Organization was not limited to Catholics-or to whites. Critics snickered at it as the "colored youth organization" and complained that it put too much stress on boxing tournaments. Retorted Sheil: "You can't inspire boys away from brothels and saloons with checkers tournaments...
Died. Right Reverend James A. Pike, 56, former Episcopal Bishop of California and one of the most controversial U.S. churchmen since World War II (see RELIGION...