An Argentinian silversmith is in New York City this week drumming up support for an unusual project: a silver communion chalice for the pope’s upcoming trip to the United States. A seventh-generation silversmith who has known Pope Francis for more than a decade, Adrián Pallaros intends to make the chalice by melting down silver jewelry—”an earring, a little ring you don’t use,” anything with silver in it—donated by Americans from across the country. Pallaros, 43, says Pope Francis would use the chalice during a mass at St.