Word: bishops
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...overseas army divisions of 32,000 were being organized, with highly mechanized equipment. Canada planned to put her shipyards to work building submarine chasers and minesweepers. Vancouver's Flying Seven, only organization of licensed women pilots in Canada, offered its services. So did Honorary Air Marshal William A. Bishop, who in World War I was officially accredited with 72 enemy planes. Hero Bishop was accepted, named tempo rary Commodore...
...Villa, a house at the $13,000,000 Seminary of St. Mary's of the Lake in Mundelein, Ill., late last Sunday afternoon, two cassocked churchmen worked over the draft of a speech. One was Most Rev. Bernard James Sheil, Auxiliary bishop of Chicago, good friend of labor, good friend of youth, founder of the Catholic Youth Organization. The other was the godfather of the town, His Eminence George William Cardinal Mundelein, Archbishop of Chicago, great liberal of the Church, great builder and money-raiser for the sprawling archdiocese he had headed for nearly a quarter of a century...
...Catholic and Protestant were being stirred on the neutrality issue by the persuasive baritone of Royal Oak, Mich.-Rev. Charles Edward Coughlin, with whom Cardinal Mundelein had crossed swords publicly in the past. The Cardinal knew that the Vatican, neutral in the War, was concerned about U. S. neutrality. Bishop Sheil had just returned from a visit to Rome, had hotfooted to Washington for a two-hour lunch in the White House. It then became known that his C. Y. 0. speech would be broadcast and that it would uphold the Administration, denounce Father Coughlin...
...companies, and guided by Christian principles of charity and justice." Rabbi Robert Gordis called upon the Church to "attack specific evils by urging specific remedies. Such problems as child labor, cooperatives, housing, minimum wages, are examples . . . where the Church should . . . strive to galvanize its membership into action." Methodist Episcopal Bishop Francis J. McConnell suggested that the Church set "its own economic house in order," declared: "It is nothing short of a scandal to find Churches standing out against labor unions on the plea that all Church earnings go to benevolent causes...
...Colony coops, now employing some 400 men, David Colony is president or vice president, visits each one daily when he is not out selling their product. He is unpopular with his bishop, dignified, 77-year-old Francis Marion Taitt, but says Rector Colony: "There is not a single member of my parish who does not have a job. That is more than a lot of my Main Line friends...