Word: sheils
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
This man is Most Rev. Bernard James Sheil, Senior Auxiliary Bishop of Chicago, right bower to firm old Cardinal Mundelein. Bishop Sheil is a short, electric character who speaks staccato brogue. Shrewd, kindly, foresighted, he founded the first Catholic Youth Organization in 1930, which has now been accepted as the official organization for all 7,000,000 U. S. Catholic children. Once an able athlete (in 1906 he pitched for St. Viator's College a no-hit, no-run game against Illinois, Big Ten baseball champion that season), he has seen his CYO boys' boxing teams ("The Bishop...
...Bishop Sheil realizes that the backbone of his Church is the same lowly worker who is also C. I. O.'s backbone. Lately he became interested in the Back-of-the-Yards Neighborhood Council, organized by Saul Alinsky, University of Chicago sociology graduate who for social research once lived with the Capone gang. The Council is sympathetic to C. I. O. Bishop Sheil has felt pressure from the packers and from A. F. of L., but last week he was on Van Bittner's platform large as life after the strike vote was taken. In fact, he read...
...Armour officials. simply would not discuss anything with them; that the plants are fortified; that shipments of livestock to the yards will be stopped by the packers when the strike comes, to starve public opinion as well as the workers into submission. But as a Catholic prelate Bishop Sheil also believed in the sacredness of property rights, the wickedness of violence. He earnestly meant John Lewis and Organizer Bittner as well as Armour & Co. when he prayed God's guidance for "those upon whose shoulders are laid such heavy responsibilities, fraught with such momentous consequences...
...less extraordinary than the appointment and the appointee is the institution to which he is going. It is the only Roman Catholic aviation school in the U. S. It is also free. Proud setting hawk of unique Lewis Holy Name is Founder Bishop Bernard James Sheil of Chicago, who nursed it from a fledgling (in 1932) in one hangar, one building and a cow pasture to lusty, soaring adolescence. A pious local farmer donated 620 flat acres; rich Chicago Manufacturer Frank J. Lewis financed 14 roomy buildings (the gymnasium is a memorial to son Joseph, killed in a plane crash...
Receiving our Open Letter Concerning Bishop Sheil were...