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...welcoming all comers: moody socialites, glittering cinemactresses, minor celebrities who will bring front-page space as did Cartoonist Peter Arno and Author Cornelius Vanderbilt Jr. when they quarreled boyishly (TIME, June 29). Loving to be unique, Reno was pleased last week when there arrived in town Dr. Thomas Kiley Gorman, 38, first Roman Catholic Bishop of the new diocese of Reno, Nevada (TIME, Aug. 3). For Bishop Gorman is no run-of-the-mill prelate such as another State might get: he is a golfer, joke-teller, smoker of big black cigars, and the youngest Catholic Bishop...
Consecrated five weeks ago in Los Angeles, Bishop Gorman arrived last week in Reno bringing with him his own publicity man, Fred V. Williams. Day after his arrival he was formally installed in old brick St. Thomas Aquinas Church, which is now elevated to the rank of Cathedral (congregation: 1,100 families). From its porch he could look across the street to El Cortez Hotel, where lives many a divorce-seeker. Five blocks away is "Gamblers' Row"-Douglas Alley and Center St. Eight blocks away is the Reno Court House, where Monday "wash-days" are held...
After his installation Bishop Gorman banqueted with priests and assisting bishops. (In his diocese of some 10,000 souls are 33 churches, 14 priests, one parochial school, one Catholic hospital.) At the State Building next evening he was given a public banquet. Said he: "It is already becoming embarrassing to be pointed out ' as Reno's 'boy bishop,' Parents have always warned their children that they should be seen but not heard." He busied himself meeting and talking with his welcomers. Among them were Nevada's Governor Fredrick Bennett Balzar, California's Governor James...
Newshawks soon asked Bishop Gorman the obvious question: what did he think of divorce and gambling in his see city? His sharp brown eyes gleamed, but he would make no comment. Was he a liberal? A reply came from Rev. Bernard J. Dolan, chancellor of the diocese of Los Angeles and San Diego: "If he were a liberal he would not have been consecrated Bishop! We hear voices raised all over the land in protest and horror of the licence that prevails in that State. . . . We cannot condone laxity of morals whether in the individual or the State. Laws that...
...Catholic Reno paid practically no attention to the news that Bishop Gorman was to be installed there. Catholics were pleased, but although they are the largest denomination in Nevada (as they are throughout the Southwest except in Mormon Utah) they are not imposing in number: only 8,447 communicants. There are no Catholic officials in the city of Reno. There were none among the supporters of Nevada's six-week divorce law last March...