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...Roman Catholic Church ranges from plain people to prelates. A prelate who takes a particular interest in plain people is the Most Rev. Bernard James Sheil, Senior Auxiliary Bishop of Chicago. Shrewd, kindly, soft-spoken Bishop Sheil realizes that the workingman is the backbone of his Church, last year made headlines by supporting C. I. O.'s organization of the packinghouse workers in Chicago's stockyards. Last winter the Bishop did some organizing himself. Last week at Manhattan's Waldorf-Astoria Hotel the directors of Bishop Sheil's Industrial Areas Foundation (who include John L. Lewis...
Proving ground for Bishop Sheil's plan has been Chicago's smelly, run-down "back of the yards" district (subject of Upton Sinclair's The Jungle), whose packinghouse population of 65,000 is almost 95% Catholic. Fifteen months ago, with the bishop's blessing, friendly, chesty Jewish Sociologist Saul Alinsky set up a Back of the Yards Neighborhood Council. Aim: to reconcile the potentially conflicting interests of business, labor, politics and religion in a crowded, depressed industrial area. Typical Council results to date: C. I. O. leaders helping the Chamber of Commerce in its membership drive...
Foresighted Bishop Sheil founded the first Catholic Youth Organization in 1930, has since seen it become the official organization for all 7,000,000 U. S. Catholic children. The I. A. F., he hopes, will allow all religious groups to join hands in social planning for their communities. Eventually he would like to see outside every industrial area, signs like those planned for Chicago's South Side: "You are now entering the home of the Back of the Yards Neighborhood Council where Church, Labor and Business join hands in the American way of life...
...agreement. But between Mr. Roosevelt and Monsignor Cicognani there is neither. Before the President announced his appointment of Myron C. Taylor as his personal envoy to the Pope,* he consulted not Monsignor Cicognani but New York's able new Archbishop Francis Joseph Spellman, and Auxiliary Bishop Bernard James Sheil, temporary successor of Chicago's late Cardinal Mundelein...
Archbishop Spellman was the Pope's personal choice for the New York post; the Apostolic Delegate was reported to have nominated Archbishop John Timothy McNicholas of Cincinnati. President Roosevelt may well have hoped that the Holy Father would make another personal appointment by naming liberal, useful Bishop Sheil to Chicago's archdiocese. Numerous Chicagoans hoped so. But in this case the Apostolic Delegate's nominee won the Pope's appointment. Last week the Apostolic Delegation announced that Milwaukee's Archbishop Samuel Alphonsus Stritch was transferred to the Chicago post...