Bishop Buddy Scrapbook 1937 (3)

Joseph's Hospital, I ~as happy in the kno~lcdge that his oppor– tunity ho.d corac to do the things that I kne1 r:orc in his heart to do. At St . Joseph's Hospital 1.cre the patients of tho ~clfarc Board. I 1.as a member of that board, and at the head of its Modiccl Depcrtment. For years Father Buddy and I hero norkcd together, o.nd hero he ministered to those poor sick people in a fashion and a ~ny that uas n blessing to them that 1.ords cannot appraise. I never kncTT him to force upon any of our patients 1,ho TTcro non-Catholics any service that could in tho least offend their sensibilities. They all recognized in him a servant of tho Good God '\:ho ·::as trying to help ther.1 bear their bi ttcr lot . And they Y cro gra tc..ful. On va.rious occo.sions ho.vo I consulted -r:'i th Bi shop Buddy about proposed changes in tho program of the various social cctivi tios r•ith -r:-lJ.ich I T:'os connected and hc.vo found him o safe: counselor . He and I did not al~ays sec eye to eye , and nt timos could only agree to disagree. On more than one occnsion have I yielded my opinion to his and found him to have boon right in his judgment on the issue involved. On tho other hand, I have been able at times to giv8 him data in connection ,ith social ~ork that ~as useful in helping him to a correct under– standing of vexing social problems thc.t -r:oro difficult of solution. Mnny times he hes been helpful to mo , and nl ric.ys r:o.s I r0cei vod -r:i th c. hco.rty 1:clcomo, nnd dismissod ,-;ri th equally hearty good till . T~c responsibility for the home life of his \.ido.. cd mother foll upon him as ho tas tho only son living in St. Joseph. His solicitude for the rclfare of his ~other and tho other members of tho femily living 1.i th her ,7nS deeply mnrked. He discharged in full tlH, duties of a son to,·:nrd a mother in hor declining yea.rs, and of a brother tornrd tho sisters at home. Those sisters, too, dido. loving service in tho troubled years ~hen the fn~ily 1.~s disintorgrcting and bore their part of the burden ~ith p2tionce o.nd fortitude. Women cnn endure the grind of long-continued misfortune 1;hen men "'ill break under the strain. With ell the co.ros of the Cathedral Parish upon his heart, he yet found time to often visit his fnmily and cheer and hearten them in those yco.rs that marked tho ending of the family life as a unit . A sorrouful thing it is to sec the b,rc.,o.king up of n homo, something -r;hi ch inevi to. bly comes to all

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