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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...
...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...
...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...
...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...