Religion: Builder's Death

In the 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...

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