Word: mundelein
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...hundreds of priests and nuns, the thousands of lay folk who jammed San Fernando Cathedral and the Military Plaza outside, it was a significant as well as a colorful occasion. For it gave the U. S. its first out-&-out New Dealing archbishop since the death of Cardinal Mundelein of Chicago...
During the 14-year editorship of tall, handsome, grey-haired Father Timothy Rowan, the New World increased its circulation from 37,000 to 55,000. Anonymously Father Rowan conducted a front-page column called the "Big Broadcast," after a radio address which the late, well-beloved George William Cardinal Mundelein made from the Vatican. With the liberal Cardinal's approval, the "Big Broadcast" declined to take sides in the late Spanish war, which most of the Catholic press believed "holy." When nearly every other diocesan paper ran the heavily loaded dispatches, with canned headlines, of the official...
...death of the late George Cardinal Mundelein of Chicago leaves us with the office of Chaplain vacant, and we are asking for nominations. . . . Senator George of Georgia certainly is still our very appropriate President...
Less liberal than Cardinal Mundelein, Archbishop Stritch is an energetic, well-liked prelate. He was born in Nashville, Tenn. of Irish parents. A scholastic prodigy-out of high school at 14, out of college at 16, a Ph.D. at 19-he was the youngest bishop in the U. S. (34) when he was made Bishop of Toledo...
...city as a charitarian. Says he, "As long as two pennies are ours, one of them belongs to the poor." He has let relief needs supersede those of his Cathedral, partly destroyed by fire in 1935, and still not completely repaired. Apparently as anti-Coughlinite as Cardinal Mundelein was, last autumn he wrote a Milwaukee rabbi denouncing those who "gain and hold a popular audience, degrade themselves and abuse the trust reposed in them by misquoting, half-quoting, and actually insinuating half-truths." In their annual meeting last November, the Catholic bishops of the U. S. showed their high opinion...