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Show DIOCESAN ARCHIVES UTAH HISTORICAL QUARTERLY for all People,” because of its value architecturally and as venue for cultural events. During the tenures of Mitty and Kearney, installed in the Cathedral of the though, Salt Lakers essentially perceived the Madeleine during Bishop Glass’s cathedral as a Catholic site, leaving the bishops World War I–era redecoration. to raise funds exclusively from Catholic sources. Accordingly, no documented efforts were made to appeal for help even to individual Mormons, let alone the LDS church itself. Nevertheless, evidence exists that Mitty was well received in the community, presumably by Mormons as well as by everyone else, largely because of his wartime service as an Army chaplain in Europe and because of his patriotism. Well before he completed the first year of his tenure, Mitty wrote to his mentor, Patrick Cardinal Hayes of New York, that “The nonCatholics are most cordial to me; I am getting invitations to talk from all sources and am accepting them. The American Legion had me broadcast a speech for Armistice Day and the Chamber of Commerce had me talk at their luncheon at which I waved the American flag. [Monsignor Duane G.] Hunt who has lived in Salt Lake [City] for 13 years tells me that he never saw such desire to have the Bishop or any Catholic attend non sectarian functions.”36 One of the potentially anti- Mormon scriptural quotations 36 246 John J. Mitty to Patrick Hayes, November 18, 1926, Mitty Papers, Diocesan Archives. |
