Religion: Catholics in Cleveland

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(See front cover) Chicago's brisk, businesslike George William Cardinal Mundelein, 63, spent his days last week between his office, his residence, his cathedral, his villa at Mundelein, where on a nine-hole course he golfs in the high 40's. Boston's stocky, rugged William Henry Cardinal O'Connell, 75 and in the best of health, attended to routine business, looked in on a priests' retreat at St. John's Seminary. Philadelphia's austere Denis Cardinal Dougherty, 70, who lately bought a $215,000 house at Overbrook, was traveling quietly in Europe. The fourth U. S. Prince of the Roman Catholic Church, Patrick Joseph Cardinal Hayes of New York, had extraordinary priestly duties to perform. Clothed with vast and holy power, attended in proud dignity by a princely retinue, the Archbishop of New York set forth on an errand imposed upon him last month by His Holiness Pope Pius XI. Symbolically dispatched from the Pope's side and armed with all that Pontiff's authority and precedence. Cardinal Hayes was Legatus a latere to the Seventh National Eucharistic Congress, held this week in Cleveland.

To Manhattan from Cleveland last week journeyed four members of the Cardinal's entourage—Monsignor Joseph Francis Smith, prothonotary apostolic and vicar general of the diocese; President Thomas Coughlin of the Morris Plan Bank who was chosen as gentleman-in-waiting; Henry Coakley, 18, son of a prominent Catholic family who was given the privilege of bearing the Cardinal's train; Joseph J. Mulholland, who got the job of ecclesiastical valet by writing a prize-winning essay on "The Influence and Benefit of the Congress to Catholics and non-Catholics of Cleveland." These four marked time for a day while the S. S. Rex sped into New York harbor bearing Monsignor Diego Venini, private chamberlain to the Pope, and Monsignor Carlo Grano, papal master of ceremonies, who proceeded to Cardinal Hayes's grey stone house on Madison Avenue behind St. Patrick's Cathedral. There they solemnly handed him his credentials as a Papal Legate. Next evening assembled the rest of the Cardinal's entourage—Monsignor Michael J. Lavelle, his portly vicar general; Monsignor John J. Casey, his affable private secretary; and two Chamberlains of the Cape & Sword, Gerald Borden of the Manhattan milk family and Papal Marquis George MacDonald, the Cardinal's rich good friend.

The day, Sunday, had been National Communion Day for 20.500,000 U. S. Catholics whose 20.000 priests saw to it that they knew of the Cleveland Congress and its aims and would pray for its success. Of the faithful millions, some 200.000 were devoutly setting out all over the land and in the Manhattan Cathedral the Cardinal and his entourage knelt briefly, chanted the Itinerarium, an ancient prayer of the Church for those about to depart on a journey.

Depart then the party did, in automobiles to Hoboken where on the Delaware, Lackawanna & Western's tracks awaited two special trains to carry the Cardinal and 250 especially invited Catholic men & women. Next day the train arrived in Cleveland where it was met by Bishop Joseph Schrembs. Auxiliary Bishop James Augustine McFadden, Ohio's Governor Martin Luther Davey. Cleveland's Mayor Harry Lyman Davis and a deputation of Papal Knights of the Order of St. Gregory the Great. Escorted by police, Knights of Columbus and a band,