Evening star., 1947-12-03
Interview
Continued From First Tage.>

County Sligo and my mother came
from County Mayo
Msgr. O'Boyle had a sister, Mary,
who died when she was very young
He has no other brothers and sisters.
but has a number of uncles and
aunts in Scranton.
| Both parents are dead.
Headed Relief Service Here.
| Msgr. OBoyle has been in social
work since 1928. He said he had
never liver in Washington, but as
executive director of the War Re-
lief Services of the National Cath
olic Welfare Conference, position
he occupied for four years, he
Travelled back and forth between
New York and Washington almost
twice week.
| The New York Office of the War
Relief Services was on the 18th
floor of the Empire State Building
and was practically wiped out when
an Army bomber struck the tower
ing building on July %, l945. He
reached the Office eight minutes
after the tragic accident. He was
able to reach the 65th floor by ele-
vator, climb the rest of the way and
administered the rights of the
church to the dying.
As a boy, Msgr. O'Boyle carried
newspapers.
During summer vacations. I
worked in textile factory and on
farms
Directed ChiIdren's Homes.
"T'he late Patrick Cardinal Hayes
suggested I go into social work y
Msgr. O'Boyle said.
He served in number of social
work organizations and in 1886 was
appointed director of the Mission of
the Immaculate Virgin at Mount
Loretto, at Staten Island, home
for more than 1000 dependent chill
dren. At the same time, he was
made director of St. Benedict's S
Home, an institution for colOred
children at Rye, N. Y.
The Catholic Charities here is an
organization which in 1916 reached
351 ,443 persons in the New York
archdiocese. In its administration
OF 174 agencies it expended s2,297 075
| Last year he received the degree
of doctor of laws from Manhattan
! College.
Text of Statement.
The statement the archbishop
designate issued said:
In a spirit of filial devotion and
with heartfelt gratitude I humbly
express my profound appreciation to
his Holiness, Plus XII, for having
/ chosen me to serve as archbishop in
the Capital of our beloved Nation.
1T is my sincere prayer that,
aided by the grace of God, the con-
fidence of the vicar of Christ in me
shall be justified. I promise to
serve the priests and faithful in
the archdiocese of Washington with
my whole heart and soul, realizing
that I am treading on ground made
sacred by the sanity Cardinal Glib
bons and by the venerable Arch
bishop Curley.
4 am indebted beyond words
to his eminence, Cardinal Spellman,
for the fatherly interest he had
taken in me and in my work ever
since his first days as Archbishop
of New York. To have served as
priest in the archdiocese of New
York for nearly 27 years and for
over 20 years in the Catholic
Charities organization has been, in
deed, a distinct privilege and a
great opportunity.
Cites Respect for Catholic U.
"I am deeply grateful to his ex-
cellency, Archbishop Cicognani, the
Apostolic delegate, for his unfailing
kindness and generous cooperation
at all times, and especially during
nv work with the War Relief
Services of the National Cathollc
Welfare Conference.
Il am indeed happy to be asso-
ciated with my dear friend Bishop
| Mcnamara of Washington, for
whom l have a profound regard,
and with the priests of the Wash
ington archdiocese, so many OF
whom I met in my work with war
relief services.
"I have always had deep re-
spect and love for the Catholic Uni
versity of America as a great center
of learning. To be chancellor OF
this citadel of Catholic thought and
action is indeed a grave RESPONSE
bility, but a responsibility lightened
by the fact that no university or
college in this country has a more
learned and devoted faculty"