Word: cardinalate
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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In big, Gothic Holy Name Cathedral, on a silver and black pall, garbed in pontifical vestments of purple and white, lay all that was mortal of George William Cardinal Mundelein, late Archbishop of Chicago. For three long days last week, in long slow lines, ten times ten times ten thousand...
The draft of the speech approved, Cardinal Mundelein dined, meditated, went to bed. Next morning, a secretary entered the Cardinal's bedchamber to awaken him for his devotions. But in his sleep, heart disease had brought death, as to all men, to George William Mundelein, 67.
Chicago had loved Cardinal Mundelein ever since it gasped, one morning in 1916, to learn that, at the first public dinner given for him, an anarchist cook had poisoned the soup, laid most of the 300 guests low-but not the new Archbishop.
In the sorrow and confusion after the death of the West's first Prince of the Church, Bishop Sheil had a quick decision to make-whether or not to cancel his speech. In a stroke of astute churchmanship, he resolved to deliver it as Cardinal Mundelein's political...
To the C. Y. 0. and the U. S., Bishop Sheil said: "What he [Cardinal Mundelein] authorized me to say was controversial-something he would not have wanted to have said for him-except that he felt that others had created a situation which might be mistaken to compromise the...