Word: sheil
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Said Chicago's Auxiliary Bishop Sheil: "Of all the priests I know, Abbot Ondrak has been most generous and most eager in his response to the Church's wish for priests who, in the words of Pope Pius XI, dedicate the better part of their endeavors and their zeal to winning back the laboring masses to Christ and to His Church. He has battled against economic injustices. . . . He has . . . battled . . . against unemployment, insecurity, disease and crime. . . . Because of him, and men like him, no one can say that the [Roman] Catholic Church is irrelevant today...
BERNARD J. SHEIL...
...TIME is well aware that Bishop Sheil's position is both progressive and Christian, respectfully points out that it used and will use "radical" as a good old word with a good old sense: "original; fundamental . . . reaching to the center or ultimate source" (Webster...
...evenings they piled into the big Shriner auditorium to hear Harold Stassen blast U.S. Communists, Walter Reuther blame U.S. labor troubles on insufficient "consumer capacity" (i.e., too low wages). Most Rev. Bernard J. Sheil, Chicago's famed radical Catholic bishop, brought down the house with a savage attack on racial inequalities and congressional dawdling...
Reveille for Radicals is written with burning honesty. The author has glimpsed a vision which is greater than his ability to put it in practical terms. But this vision, which is no less than the revitalization of democracy, explains why Chicago's Auxiliary Bishop Bernard J. Sheil calls Reveille for Radicals "a life-saving handbook for the salvation of democracy," and why Philosopher Jacques Maritain calls it "epoch-making...