Religion: Chronic Hell's Gadfly

Chubby little Dean Milo Hudson Gates of Manhattan's Cathedral of St. John the Divine last month recommended to Protestants the practice of saying their prayers with a rosary. To those who find this too "Romish" he suggested the use of a knotted string. Quick to approve was the clergy of Manhattan's Episcopal Church of St. Mary the Virgin, which has long out-Romanized the Romans. Said its monthly bulletin Ave: "Good for the Dean! . . . Perhaps we shall now be able to say our beads in the Cathedral without interruption. The...

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