Roman Catholics: Flying Red Hats

Inspired, perhaps, by travel-minded Pope Paul—who is likely to follow up his Holy Land trip with a visit to Bombay's Eucharistic Congress this fall—European cardinals of the Roman Catholic Church are on the move these days, and lately the red hats have been popping up all over the U.S.

Bearded Eugene Cardinal Tisserant of the Roman Curia, 80, dean of the Sacred College, stopped in on old clerical friends in New York, Chicago, St.

Louis and Spokane, emerged from the shadows for only a few public functions: one of them was representing Pope...