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...coming Catholic University of America (Washington, D. C.), only U. S. pontifical university,* announced that its School of Social Work will be enlarged, called the School of Social Science. Significantly, its first dean will be a famed Catholic New Dealer: Rt. Rev. Monsignor Francis Joseph Haas. Monsignor Haas has since 1933 served on the NRA's Labor Advisory Board, the National Labor Board, the National Committee on Business & Labor Standards, WPA's Labor Policies Board. He has been surpassed only by Edward McGrady as a mediator in strikes, serving notably in the Minneapolis truckmen's strike...
...past two years Monsignor Haas has spent most of his time in Wisconsin, where he was born 48 years ago, as rector of St. Francis Seminary in Milwaukee and member of the State Labor Board. He returns to Catholic University, where in 1922 he took his Ph.D. with a thesis on "Mediation in the Men's Garment Industry," to emphasize the Church's economic teachings, train priests and laymen in organizing social-minded Catholic groups, apply moral laws to economic life. At the University Monsignor Haas will encounter, among other kindred priests, a newly-appointed philosophy professor, Monsignor...
Next day Archbishop Mooney was installed in his post in the presence of ten U. S. and Canadian archbishops, many a bishop, monsignor and priest. Escorted by Knights of Columbus in cocked hats, the ecclesiastics marched through crowded Detroit streets in what was the year's most showy parade, taking half an hour to pass through the portals of the Church of the Blessed Sacrament. There on a throne sat Archbishop Amleto Giovanni Cicognani, Apostolic Delegate to the U. S., whose name (pronounced chee-kone-yonny) had become to many an impious Detroiter "Chicken Annie." Three papal bulls were...
...Radical Alliance bestowed its blessings upon a C.I.O. strike, that of workers in the Loose-Wiles Biscuit plant in Lawrenceville, Pa., and last fortnight the zealous trio of churchmen made a quick dash into the great and grim labor war in Steel (see p. 11). At Struthers, Ohio, while Monsignor O'Toole and Father Hensler looked approvingly on, Father Rice stood in the rain, harangued encouragement at strikers of Youngstown Sheet & Tube's coke plant. Ohio priests who had kept mum on or disapproved the C.I.O. were discomfited to learn that once more the Radical Alliance...
...Monsignor O'Toole, known to be dissatisfied with the conservatism of Duquesne, last week announced his resignation and his appointment to Catholic University in Washington, whence he will continue to direct the Radical Alliance and, presumably, help finance it as he has done from the start...