POPE AND FLYING

Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 73, Issue 425, 17 November 1930, Page 11

POPE AND FLYING

ENCOURAGING BISHOPS Tho Pope has been encouraging bishops who live at a great distance from the Vatican to make their journeys there bv air. Cardinal Hlond, Primate of Poland, was the first, distinguished churchman to use. this means of communication ami made quite a sensation the first time he landed at the Littorio Air Port. • . Some more conservative members or the Sacred College had been doubtful about the propriety of a Cardinal flying. Their fears were' sot at rest for the Pope, in speaking of the matter to them, said ho regretted that lack of space in his small sovereign state, made it impossible, for him to build an airport. . . Not long ago a Chinese bishop visited the Pope with the usual report of affairs in his diocese As he was leaving the Pope said. “Wo hope to sec you again next year.” The Chinese prelate looked surprised and explained that tho distance was so groat that it would mean hir. leaving his diocese for a long time. “To-day, yos,” said the Popo, “but in a year’s time you will no doubt be able to fly most of the way from China.”