Down by the waterfront, not far from the Aerodrome, the compilers of New 
Chusan had, as a charitable gesture, made some space available to the Vatican. 
In the early years it had contained nothing more than a two-story mission for 
thetes who had followed their lifestyle to its logical conclusion and found 
themselves homeless, addicted, hounded
by debtors, or on the run from the law or abusive members of their own 
families.