When Bishop James Hugh Ryan departed from the Catholic University of America in Washington to become shepherd of Omaha's Roman Catholics (TIME, Nov. 25), the trustees of that Pontifical institution decided upon a convert Catholic for the University's next rector—Dr. Robert Howard Lord, once of Harvard, now a Church History professor at St. John's Seminary, Brighton, Mass. The Holy See and its Apostolic Delegate in the U. S., however, do things in their own way. Last week was announced the appointment to the Washington post of Monsignor Joseph M. Corrigan, 56, rector...
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