She has anxiously watched the progress of the proposed pilgrimage which McMaster and other pious gentlemen have fostered, and now that it is almost near departure, she is disappointed and disheartened at the rule excluding women from the grand privilege of this pilgrimage. Men are not content with the superiority they assume over women in business, politics, and science, but must assume the same superiority in matters of religion. What right has the Committee to bar women? She does not know of any priest or Bishop who was consulted in this matter. The pious Catholic women would gladly submit to any inconveniences and make sacrifices in order to visit the spot where the Queen of Heaven appeared to the humblest of women. She hopes the Committee will reconsider this hasty decision before the pilgrimage leaves and give the devoted Catholic women of America an opportunity to visit Rome and elsewhere and of expressing their sympathy for the Holy Father's afflictions. :: I-2-a A.L.S. 1p. 6to.