Religion: At Rome

Spuming, plunging, bumping dolphins, the steamship Conte Biancamano rushed across the stormy Mediterranean last week with His Eminence Patrick Joseph Cardinal Hayes, Archbishop of New York priest of Sancta Maria in Via — Rome. Cardinal Hayes had with him his entourage and the last U. S. contingent of Holy Year pilgrims, for on Christmas Eve the Holy Doors close on this year at jubilee. For that ceremony they arrived in Naples in good time but they reached Rome late by one day to attend the resplendent, the rare Public (Extraordinary Consistory at which five...

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