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...chastity, poverty and obedience primarily to social service among working girls. So last week the Ladies of the Grail began training their first group of U.S. aspirants on a great estate near Chicago given them by Cardinal Mundelein's energetic, liberal-minded right hand, Auxiliary Bishop Bernard James Sheil...
...Bishop Sheil bought Doddridge Farm at a bargain price from Chicago's Episcopalians. Its 115 acres include a farm, 20 fine buildings. There last week Bishop Sheil blessed the yellow frame farm chapel, addressed the future Ladies, outlined the social problems they must face...
...Bishop Sheil hopes the Ladies will become one of the most effective instruments of the Catholic Church's social gospel and social service in the U.S. Their order was started by a Jesuit in The Netherlands 20 years ago. After several false starts, they found their vocation of social work, distinguished themselves in the chocolate factories of The Hague, in the coal-mine country around Limburg, spread to other countries so slowly that even today there are only 120 fully professed Ladies throughout the world...
Energetic Bishop Sheil is not hurrying the Grail Ladies. Their U.S. leader, a plump, indomitable Dutch Ph.D. in philology, Dr. Lydwine van Kersbergen, spent a whole year rounding up her first group of 30 girls. From the lot, only six girls will be chosen to complete a three-year course leading to their vows. After that they will go into the world to do their work, carefully trained in Christian ethics, sociology, journalism, economics, art, apologetics...
Today the encyclicals are finally bearing fruit. Auxiliary Bishop Bernard James Sheil of Chicago posed the alternative in 1939 when he addressed a C.I.O. mass meeting of packinghouse workers which inaugurated a national drive to unionize the packers: "If the Catholic Church does not do its duty, workers may have to depend on isms." And last year the N.C.W.C.'s administrative board, which represents the whole American hierarchy, roundly stated: "The first claim of labor, which takes priority over any claim of the owners to profits, respects the rights to a living wage." Pius XI's admonition...