The real Cardinals came out to play on the last Friday of April.
Not the birds-on-the-bat baseball team for which St. Louis is known but the distinguished gentlemen wearing red zucchettos with crosses hanging on the front of distinctive cassocks — black with red buttons — from chains around their necks.
The Cardinals graced St. Louis with their presence for the American Cardinals Dinner benefiting another prominent "The" of the United States — The Catholic University of America.