St Thomas High School - Thomist Yearbook (Rockford, IL)

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honesty of humility and the unquestioned power of an almost unassailable position of authority. In forty years of ecclesi- astical career, all of which years have been spent in very influential position, with a Held of labor that has never been merely parochial or diocesan, Bishop Mul- doon, as a churchman has won the golden opinions and the troops of friends that should be the solace of his latter years. He has preserved a mellow humor and, with a broad smile, assumes the role of advocatus diaboli in his own case and steadfastly resists the extra-legal can- onizationsfi which ever and anon are bestowed on him by that large group of admirers who see his importance as an American churchman, in every best sense of that term, much clearer than he will ever see it himself. Long association is supposed to give insight. It may be true in principle that to be much with another is to have some estimate of his character. But it is not always true that the faculty of expressing appreciation accompanies the opportunity of observing. This is the writer's apology for concluding with the words of another observer who had only a brief time in which to make his estimate of the Bishop, but who did it with commendable pre- cision and a high sense of values. The exact degree of responsibility to be at- tributed to Bishop Muldoon for the Bishops' program issued by the National Catholic Welfare Conference immediately after the war is not sufficiently known to the writer to render him competent to discuss it. However, so great was his share in contributing to the inspiration of the whole movement which was reflected in that document, and so well known was it that a celebrated correspondent from VVashington journeyed to Rockford to in- terview the Chairman of the Bishops' Executive Committee. This man is him- self a political observer, a sociologist, a writer of international repute-he is a also non-Catholic. He had this very illuminating thing to say about Bishop Muldoon, and it is repeated here in con- clusion because in short space it says everything important and says it with rare understanding. In that printed in- terview Mr. William Hard made this comment-I recommend it to all who have an appreciation of terseness and truth, and I recommend it also because it was written with great respect and was well deserved g- The Bishop is a burly person, fatherly yet companionable - seeming very near with an errand from very far away. U f14l

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