Word: stritch
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...CHICAGO, Samuel Cardinal Stritch told the Summer School of Catholic Action: "Let us admit that we are not succeeding in presenting the Christian ideal so that it fires the imagination and enthusiasm of our fellow men. Perhaps too many of us are indulging in compromise and yielding to fear . . . Human respect makes us tolerant of compromise. Let us Set away from that." Members of the school picked Bing Crosby as "the Catholic layman who has made the most important contribution to the ... Church...
Blonde Elaine Stritch, who sings a wiggly "Bongo-bongo-bongo" in Broadway's Angel in the Wings and who is also a cousin of Chicago's Samuel Cardinal Stritch, explained to an interviewer why she doesn't consider the theater her "religion" as some actresses do. "It's nice to have something lasting about yourself," said she. "There's certainly nothing lasting and definite about the theater. But you know the show at St. Pat's won't close for a long time. . . . Democracy is lost...
...tenements near the stockyards. Priests, bishops and archbishops occupied a solid 14 pews within St. Procopius'. The occasion: the four-hour investiture of Father Ambrose Ondrak as Abbot of the Benedictine Abbey of St. Procopius, one of 21 abbeys of the U.S. Benedictines. The investing prelate: Samuel Cardinal Stritch...
Archbishop Urban John Vehr of Denver, ceremonially draped with a pallium* brought from Rome by Samuel Alphonsus Cardinal Stritch, managed to get through the ceremony with a nose that had been through a chilling experience. Playing host to visiting bishops the night before, the Archbishop had tripped, taken a nose dive. Physicians insisted on keeping the archiepiscopal neb in an ice pack all night...
...dinner in honor of Chicago's new cardinal, Catholic Ed Kelly referred to His Eminence as "General Stritch...