Bernard James Sheil

The Most Reverend Bernard James Sheil
Auxiliary Bishop of Chicago
See	Chicago
Installed	May 1, 1928
Term ended	September 13, 1969
Orders
Ordination	May 21, 1910
Consecration	May 1, 1928
Personal details
Born	(1888-02-18)February 18, 1888 Chicago, Illinois
Died	September 13, 1969(1969-09-13) (aged 81) Tucson, Arizona
Denomination	Roman Catholic Church

Bernard James Sheil (February 18, 1888 – September 13, 1969) was an Auxiliary Roman Catholic Bishop of Chicago.

Biography

Born and raised in Chicago, Sheil was ordained a priest on May 3, 1910. He was named auxiliary Bishop of Chicago in 1928, a post he held for over forty years. As bishop he was given the titular see of Pegae. On June 5, 1959, he was raised to the rank of Archbishop, being named titular Archbishop of Selge.

Sheil was "outspoken advocate of social justice in the underprivileged and marginalized sectors of the community." His pro-labor stance led him to endorse some controversial strikes.

Bishop Sheil was founder of Catholic Youth Organization (CYO). According to a history of Catholic Scouting, while Cardinal Mundelein of Chicago had "explored the possibility of Scouting for his 'street kiddies,'" it was not until his newly consecrated auxiliary, Bishop Bernard J. Sheil, took the reins, that Catholic Scouting flourished in Chicago." He was awarded the Silver Buffalo Award by the Boy Scouts of America in 1942.

The Sheil School of Social Studies, which focused on adult education, opened at CYO headquarters in 1943. In eleven years of operation, it enrolled 20,000 students. In 1954, Sheil vehemently attacked Joseph McCarthy, at a time when most Catholics supported this right-wing senator, provoking the withdrawal of some of the financial supporters of his projects especially when they discovered the anti-constitutional theme of attacks.( A theme among all Alinsky followers who hate Constitutional authority in favor of instead of removing all forms of preconceived morality and maintaining complete control as an end game. As we see today the Rules For Radicals in order to fight against any notion of morals, only the target victims are to be held to what they claim and of course the opposite is true for themselves. The Sheil Catholic Center at Northwestern University is also named for him.

See also

• Roman Catholic Church
• Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Chicago

References

• http://www.catholicscouting.org/NCCS_History/NCCS_Chronology/nccs_chronology.html
• http://www.catholicscouting.org/NCCS_History/Personnel/personnel.html
• https://web.archive.org/web/20070813192624/http://www.sheil.northwestern.edu:80/aboutus/history/sheil.html
• Encyclopedia of Chicago: Roman Catholics
• Defeat in Chicago

External links

• The Silver Buffalo Award
• No Nonsense Archbishop from Time
• Defeat in Chicago from Time