When Bishop James Edward Freeman, who read the funeral service of Presbyterian President Wilson, was chosen to head Washington's great Episcopal Cathedral (TiME, Oct. 19, 1925) many an ill-advised scrivener referred to the Cathedral as a U. S. Episcopal Vatican, to Bishop Freeman as its Pope. Then rumors were legion that the national headquarters of Episcopalians would be transferred to from Manhattan. But, though still sporadically consider the the headquarters have remained they were. Nevertheless, last week, Bishop Freeman spoke to the annual convention of his diocese, thoroughly condemned church lobbying in Washington, his words might well have been paralleled...
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