Word: sheils
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...children, ecstatic before a mountain of toys and candy-crammed paper bags, workers of the Catholic Youth Organization would labor happily to distribute presents and keep order. And in the middle of the maelstrom would move the founder and father of C.Y.O., The Most Rev. Bernard J. Sheil-a firm-faced Friar Tuck kneeling nimbly beside the toddlers, leading other children by the hand, talking to twelve-year-olds with the dignity becoming their years. To Bishop Sheil, the C.Y.O. Christmas Party was a symbol of his life and work-cheerful, practical action among the big-city poor...
...Basilisk Eye. Among the other odds and ends of Ickes' diary is the story of his efforts to encourage F.D.R. to intercede directly with the Vatican for the appointment of Bishop Bernard J. Sheil as Archbishop of Chicago. Said Ickes: "I do not think that the Vatican would have dared to turn him down if he had made strong representations.'' Ickes also relates rather gleefully how the President "developed the groundwork for a campaign against Willkie. He is going to try to tie Willkie in with the idea of the 'corporate state,' which was Mussolini...
...Chicago's Bishop Bernard J. Sheil, who resigned last month without explanation as head of the Catholic Youth Organization (rumors linked the resignation with the bishop's repeated attacks on Joe McCarthy), announced his plans for the future : "I intend to devote all of my available time and resources to the fight . . . against tyranny as represented by international Communism ... to show the destructiveness of Communism to individual morality and to the political morality of the world...
Chicago's popular, liberal Auxiliary Bishop Bernard J. Sheil. 66, last week announced his resignation as head of the Catholic Youth Organization, a group which he founded 24 years ago, and which now has some 5,000,000 members. No reason was given by Sheil or by Samuel Cardinal Stritch, who announced that Shell's successor would be Monsignor Edward J. Kelly, long active in the C.Y.O. But speculation inevitably reverted to Bishop Sheil's famed blast at Senator Joseph McCarthy last April, which antagonized many Roman Catholic laymen and clergy. Most widely heard explanation: Sheil...
...occasion for a Catholic when he reads of Bishop Sheil's attack ... As for America being in danger of losing its sense of humor, well, I-with my experience of living under Fascism and Communism-have lost mine a time ago. And so did almost a half of the world's population ... As for "a monstrous perversion of morality," Bishop Sheil should have asked some of the G.I.s tortured in the Chinese P.W. camps or some of the priest refugees for advice...