Besides announcing the names of 20 Cardinals-to-be (see above), Pope Pius XI last week filled two vacant U. S. bishoprics. To shepherd all the Catholics of Georgia as Bishop of Savannah, he appointed Most Rev. Gerald P. O'Hara, 40, who has been auxiliary Bishop of Philadelphia since 1929. Appointed to be Bishop of Sault Sainte Marie and Marquette was Auxiliary Bishop Joseph C. Plagens, 55, of Detroit, onetime pastor of Sweetest Heart of Mary Church.
In contrast to 20,000,000 U. S. Catholics who have 122 bishops, 2,000,000 U. S. Episcopalians have 126 shepherds. Lately...
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