Word: alighiero
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Take-Off. The Friars' greatest success was in routing the ex-Jesuit, Alighiero Tondi, who had been booked for a series of speeches in Emilia following his spectacular conversion to Communism (TIME, May 5, 1952). At Tondi's first lecture, before a packed Communist audience at the University of Bologna, Toschi and nine of the Flying Friars were there to heckle. Sample dialogue...
...Alighiero Tondi always wanted to believe in something-if possible, rationally. He entered the Jesuit order in Rome 16 years ago with this in mind. "I was confident," he recalled, "that scientific proofs of Catholic truth existed." In 16 years as a Jesuit, he made his mark. His lectures to young people at Gregorian University's institute for laymen-on "religious science"-were immensely successful. Superiors admitted that Father Tondi could chase away spiritual doubts among Rome's younger generation "as no one else could...
...became a Jesuit, Father Tondi slipped out of his room at Gregorian University. "I'm not coming back," he telephoned the rector next morning. "Don't look for me." Four days later, a front-page spread in Rome's party-lining daily Il Paese announced that Alighiero Tondi had joined the Communist Party...
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