Religion: Archdiocese

His Holiness has created a 16th U. S. archdiocese from the diocese of San Antonio* This new province includes the diocese of Galveston, Corpus Christi, Dallas, Oklahoma, and a new one of Amarillo.

Negro Nuns, Negro Priests

At Cincinnati, Archbishop John T. McNicholas observed the conversion to Roman Catholicism of 70 Negroes, including two onetime Protestant ministers; urged them to train their children for priesthood, sisterhood; said: "I earnestly ask all our colored citizens to consider the position of the Catholic church, to study her teachings, to realize that her ceremonials, her processions, her music...

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