Word: catholicize
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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This man is Most Rev. Bernard James Sheil, Senior Auxiliary Bishop of Chicago, right bower to firm old Cardinal Mundelein. Bishop Sheil is a short, electric character who speaks staccato brogue. Shrewd, kindly, foresighted, he founded the first Catholic Youth Organization in 1930, which has now been accepted as the...
He knew the organizers' story: that the Armour officials. simply would not discuss anything with them; that the plants are fortified; that shipments of livestock to the yards will be stopped by the packers when the strike comes, to starve public opinion as well as the workers into submission...
...voted Ja with the best of them. He was, indeed, credited with helping end the Schuschnigg regime, by letting the Austrian Catholic press back Arthur Seyss-Inquart, Nazi go-between. Many Catholic observers, nonetheless, believe Cardinal Innitzer is no timeserver but a sincere, bewildered wrong-guesser who believed that Catholicism could honestly come to terms with Hitlerism. Praising the Cardinal's attempts at conciliation, the Commonweal said last week of his experience at Konigsbrunn: "It is one of the few classic tragedies in our melodramatic...
For the advanced college courses, high-school graduates must take stiff competitive examinations (about 20%, pass). On these picked few, Holy Name's faculty (non-Catholic Superintendent John Wilson, seven lay instructors, one Viatorian brother, one Carmelite priest) lavish care not to be found in many U. S. scientific...
Literary Exercise. Pseudo-duels, arty riots (incited by everything from Dadaism to literary prize awards), political squabbles and fishwife furies are traditional components of the French literary life. Dean of French literary stirrer-uppers is scrawny, deaf, 71-year-old Charles Maurras, libeling editor for 41 years of the Royalist...