The Waterbury Democrat. [volume] (Waterbury, Conn.) 1917-1946, 1939-10-03

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both as to policy and language" BY
the cardinal and himself In series
Of conferences. The last meeting,
he said, lasted I'VE hours and ended
only Is hours before the cardinal
died at suburban Mundel6in early
yesterday from coronary thrombosis.
Body in state
Cardinal Mundelein died peace
fully In his sleep. he was 81. His
body will be placed In state ON Q
candle Lit catafalque tonight at the
Holy Name Cathedral and remain
there until Friday morning when
services will be held. He viii be
buried beneath the altar Of the I'm
maculate Conception at st. Mary Of
the Lake Seminary at Mundelein.
Church and civic leaders through
out the world, Catholic and non
Catholic, sent their condolences to
the Chicago archdiocese today rs
liturgists prepared the complicated
ritual.
Pope Plus sent his condolences
and celebrated q special mass today
in his private chapel at Castel Gan.
dolfo. Parochial school children
and students at st. Mary of the Lake
Seminary and Mundelein college,
which the cardinal founded, held
group meetings to pray for his soul.
The Chicago city council proclaimed
civic mourning.
President Roosevelt, senators, con-
gressmen and governors sent their
condolences and the National
Broadcasting Company announced q
memorial program would be carried
on its Red Network from 1880 to
II D. m. (CST) tonight with former
Gov. Alfred E. Smith of New York,
Attorney General Frank Murphy
and Mayor Edward j. Kelly Of Chi
cago as the principal speakers.
Bishop Shiel was to have deliver
ed his address at Cincinnati last
night at the national conference Of
the Catholic Youth Organisations.
II would be unfaithful to the trust
he imposed in me-" he said, "if I
did not carry on tonight with the
counsels of Cardinal Mundelein's
practical wisdom and his spiritual
tolerance which he had wished me
to say to his countrymen for him
his last message of loyalty to the
political processes Of representative
democracy.
what he authorized me to say
was controyersial-something he
would not have wanted to have said
for him-except that he felt that
others had created a situation which
might be mistaken to compromise
the position of the Catholic clergy
toward the congress of the United
States, and toward his great friend
and admirer, the president Of the
United States"
l. War . Tragedy
Bishop Shiel said the European
war is tragedy of human lead
ers, who blinded by their material
ism and their conscious or uncon-
scious selfishness, are committing
crime of false stewardship against
humanity and against God :"
He said that ito give mankind its
second chance here in this new
world" the course Of America Is to
"stay out Of Europe until peace
comes to Europe-and under no cir
cumstances send our American
youth into Europe's wars"
He said it was the hope of all
that congress will furnish q forum
in which the American people as a
whole can thoroughly educate them
selves to their great problem and
reach an honest and nationwide
conviction of the wise course to fol-
low these dangerous days.
''But it constitutes disrespect for
wisdom and experience, and is a po-
sitive impeachment to our Democratic
process, deliberately to bludgeon
senators and congressman with let
tiers and kilograms which can only
be counted and not read"
He referred to an editorial from
the Osservatore Romano, ohhcial
Vatican newspaper, and said every
American Catholic must glow with
pride at the commentator which
that editorial gave to President
Roosevelt,s message to congress rec
ommending changes in the so-called
neutrality act and the identity that
editorial established between the
views of the holy father and the
views of our own president %.
q. T. we members of the Catholic
faith in the United States must do
everything in our power to strength
en- the president in his mighty task
of guiding America to safety. That
should give the key to the attitude
of American Catholics on the rec
concentrations Of the. president now
before the congress to keep the
country out Of war"