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...banker was astonished at the bishop. It was 1939, the packinghouse workers were on the verge of striking for recognition of their C.I.O. union, and here was the Most Rev. Bernard James Sheil, senior auxiliary bishop of Chicago's Roman Catholic archdiocese, accepting "as a great privilege" the invitation of John L. Lewis to appear on a C.I.O. platform in the stockyard district. "I want you to remember, Your Excellency," said the banker, a Catholic layman, "that the minute you step on that platform, you lose your chance to become archbishop...
...Bishop Sheil, 65, has never become an archbishop. But he has become something possibly greater-one of the most loved and respected Christian leaders in the U.S. Last week Chicago showed him so by celebrating his 25th anniversary as bishop with a party that jammed the banquet space of the Palmer House...
Boxing v. Brothels. Father William Bergin was there. Tipperary-born Father Bergin, 86, could easily remember young Benny Sheil, his pupil at St. Viator College in Bourbonnais, Ill. who pitched a no-hitter for St. Viator against the University of Illinois. ("I had a terrifying amount of speed," says Bishop Sheil, thinking back.) Benny Sheil turned down offers to try out with both the Cincinnati Reds and the Chicago White Sox before he went back to study for the priesthood...
Retired President Britton Budd of the Public Service Co. of Northern Illinois was invited to last week's party, too. He could remember helping Bishop Sheil found the organization that is his chief monument: the Catholic Youth Organization (C.Y.O.). As a young priest, Father Sheil served part-time as a chaplain at the Cook County jail. He walked many a doomed man to the execution chamber, and once a "mad-dog killer" said to him near the end: "Father, why do they wait until now before they start to care?" Later, when Father Sheil was consecrated a bishop...
With his own inheritance from his father and $10,000 from Utility Man Budd, Sheil set out to lure off the streets young potential gangsters-white and Negro, Protestant, Catholic and Jew-with a social and athletic program that kept moralizing to a minimum. Boxing was the major attraction. When some high-minded people clucked at the stress on boxing, Bishop Sheil's reply was: "Show me how you can inspire boys away from the brothels and saloons with a checker tournament and I'll put on the biggest checker tournament you ever...