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George Mundelein was born on July 2, 1872, in New York City, the only son and the oldest of the three children of Francis Mundelein and Mary Goetz. His father was of German descent, and his mother was Irish.
His father kept a store but made so poor a living that young George was raised by his maternal grandmother, from whom he learned to speak German.
Like his close friends Cardinal Patrick J. Hayes and Alfred E. Smith, he spent his early life on Manhattan's lower East Side, where he went to St. Nicholas parochial school.
With financial assistance from friends he next attended De La Salle Institute and Manhattan College, graduating from the latter in 1889 with a Bachelor of Arts degree. While he was in college, friends of the family persuaded President Cleveland to offer him an appointment to the Naval Academy at Annapolis, but he finally chose the priesthood.
Joining the neighboring diocese of Brooklyn, he went to St. Vincent Seminary at Latrobe, Pennsylvania.
After studying theology for three years he was still only twenty and too young for ordination, so for the next three years he pursued postgraduate studies in Rome at the Urban College of Propaganda, where he received the Doctor of Divinity degree, learned much about the central administration of the Catholic Church, and made many lasting friendships among Roman authorities.
Mundelein was ordained to the priesthood in Rome, on June 8, 1895, by his own bishop, Charles E. McDonnell of Brooklyn.
Returning to Brooklyn, he was at first associate secretary to Bishop McDonnell, then chancellor of the diocese, and finally auxiliary bishop. Soon he became rector of the Cathedral Chapel of Queen of All Saints, where he directed an extensive building program.
On November 29, 1915, it was announced that Mundelein would succeed James Edward Quigley as Archbishop of Chicago. In his new post he further developed the administrative and fund-raising talents for which he was already noted.
To keep pace with Chicago's rapid expansion after the first World War he built hundreds of churches, schools, hospitals, orphanages, convents, and rectories, issuing notes to secure the necessary funds. So soundly was this financing administered that when stocks and bonds tumbled to a fraction of their former value during the depression years the notes of the Chicago Archdiocese remained at par.
Two projects won Mundelein's special support. One was a new preparatory seminary in Chicago, named for his predecessor, Archbishop Quigley. Expanded in 1925, it became the largest preparatory seminary in the United States. The other was a new major seminary where candidates for the priesthood would study philosophy and theology. For this, some 1, 400 acres were purchased near Area (later Mundelein), a town about forty-five miles northwest of Chicago, and fourteen large buildings were constructed over a period of fourteen years at a cost of ten million dollars. Mundelein regarded the founding of St. Mary of the Lake Seminary (later popularly known as Mundelein Seminary) as his supreme achievement. Deeply patriotic, he frequently impressed upon the seminary students their duty to be loyal Americans as well as good Catholics. By the same token, he sought to discourage the perpetuation of nationality groups among the recent immigrants in his archdiocese.
On March 24, 1924, at a special consistory, Mundelein was elevated to the Sacred College of Cardinals, along with his friend Archbishop Hayes of New York.
Two years later Cardinal Mundelein was host to the 28th International Eucharistic Congress, held at Chicago. Attended by more than a million Catholics, including twelve cardinals and 309 bishops, it was one of the largest religious assemblages in history.
Never forgetting his own childhood, Mundelein had a deep concern for the underprivileged. He founded the Associated Catholic Charities (1917) to oversee the welfare activities of the whole archdiocese of Chicago and personally outfitted a hundred needy boys each Christmas with everything from underwear to overcoat. As early as 1919 he warned American business men to treat their workmen fairly, not merely as part of their machinery, if they would avoid the threat of communism.
Mundelein found much to approve of in the social policies of President Franklin D. Roosevelt's New Deal; and Roosevelt in turn greatly admired Mundelein, whom he had known since the latter's days as auxiliary bishop of Brooklyn, and frequently consulted him during his presidency. When Roosevelt went to Chicago in October 1937 to deliver his famous "quarantine-the-aggressors" speech, he was the Cardinal's house guest.
Mundelein himself, though normally a quiet man not given to oratory, had spoken out sharply against German fascism earlier in that same year, the first churchman of his rank to do so. His reference to Adolf Hitler as "an Austrian paperhanger, and a poor one at that, " brought an official protest from the German government to the Vatican and to Washington. Mundelein also attracted wide attention in December 1938 when he issued a statement denying that the Rev. Charles E. Coughlin, whose isolationist and increasingly anti-Semitic radio broadcasts had a considerable following at the time, represented the "doctrines or sentiments of the Catholic Church. " Seven months after attending the conclave which elected Pope Pius XII, Cardinal Mundelein died in his sleep of a coronary thrombosis. His body was laid to rest in a special crypt under the main altar of the Mundelein Seminary chapel.
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Considered a liberal, George Mundelein was a friend of President Franklin D. Roosevelt and supporter of the New Deal. Also he was a staunch supporter of trade unions.
In 1917, George Mundelein founded the Associated Catholic Charities.
Patrick Joseph Hayes was an American Archbishop of New York from 1919 until his death, and Cardinal of the Roman Catholic Church.
Franklin Delano Roosevelt was an American statesman and political leader, who served as the 32nd President of the United States from 1933 until his death in 1945.
