Hanna Retires

Because of "the infirmity of advancing years," San Francisco's Catholic Archbishop Edward Joseph Hanna, 74, announced last week that he is retiring. A onetime theology professor suspected of "modernism," he became Bishop in 1912, Archbishop in 1915. Archbishop Hanna is rated one of California's first citizens, a liberal who served ably as its Commissioner of Immigration and last summer, during San Francisco's dock strike, headed President Roosevelt's three-man board (TIME, July 9, et seq.). Of the 18 U. S. Catholic Archbishops, he was the one most frequently mentioned for the Cardinal's red hat which one day must go West.

Last week Bishop Joseph Francis Rummel of Omaha was appointed Archbishop of New Orleans, succeeding the late Most Rev. John William Shaw. Like many another member of the Western hierarchy, Bishop Rummel held his first pastorates in New York. German-born 59 years ago, long an able shepherd of German-American flocks, he now takes one which is largely French-Creole.

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