Rome. The painted Hall of Consistory. Exeunt omnes. The Pope in a seamless robe of white is left alone with Cardinals scarlet-clad. Quid vobis videtur? Thus saith the Pope: "Therefore by the authority of God Almighty, of the Holy Apostles Peter and Paul, and by our own authority we nominate the Most Reverend George Mundelein, Archbishop of Chicago, and the Most Reverend Patrick Hayes, Archbishop of New York, Gardinals of the Holy Roman Church."
The Cardinal Camerlengo strikes a bell, signal for Roman joy.
Judge Morgan J. O'Brien was one of the Manhattan friends of...
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