Religion: Army & Navy See

Fastest-growing diocese in the whole Roman Catholic Church is the U.S. Diocese of the Army & Navy. Head of this world-sprawled See, with the title of Military Vicar, is New York's genial Archbishop Francis J. Spellman. Since he must shepherd over a million of the faithful in his own Archdiocese, the real work of the Army & Navy Diocese falls on his military delegate, lanky, Spanish-speaking Bishop John F. O'Hara, onetime president of Notre Dame. And Bishop O'Hara is so busy that last week the Pope gave him an assistant. He is the Most Rev. William T. McCarty, 53, of Brooklyn,...

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