Word: sheils
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Spellman and Senator McCarthy at a recent reception in New York that I began to question my lifelong connection and acceptance of the Roman Catholic religion . . . More power to you for giving so much space in your April 19 issue to the ringing denunciation of Rabblerouser McCarthy by Bishop Sheil...
...most influential U.S. Roman Catholic churchmen lashed out last week at Joe McCarthy's kind of antiCommunism. Tyranny, the Most Rev. Bernard James Sheil told 2,500 cheering delegates to the C.I.O. Auto Workers' international educational conference at Chicago, cannot be fought with more tyranny. And since McCarthy launched his Red hunt four years ago, "we have been victims ... of a kind of shell game. We have been treated like country rubes, to be taken in by a city slicker from Appleton...
...Bishop Sheil, 66-year-old founder and general director of the Catholic Youth Organization and auxiliary bishop of the Chicago archdiocese, also tore into the argument that, while McCarthy's means may be questionable, they are justified by his ends...
Eight hours later, more than 2,300 people came to dinner. Their tables overflowed the Palmer House grand ballroom into the foyer, into the halls, almost into the elevators. There was a cake 15 ft. high which Bishop Sheil had to cut standing above it on the balcony. There was a main course of the bishop's beloved corned beef & cabbage, and over & over the band played his favorite tune, MacNamara's Band...
...table sat Theologian Jacques Maritain and Labor Leaders John L. Lewis and James B. Carey, Illinois' Governor William G. Stratton and Capitalist Marshall Field. Chicago's Episcopal Bishop Wallace Conkling gave the benediction and Rabbi Louis Binstock of Temple Sholom asked God's blessing on Bishop Sheil in Hebrew. A check for $131,582 was presented to the bishop for his various funds, and 26 separate awards, each with appropriate words of praise, kept coming until midnight...