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...Believes It? In Heaven and Earth, Italian Novelist Carlo Coccioli uses his characters as a guardrail. He tells most of his story through their mouths, and thus remains at a safe distance himself. His priestly hero, Don Ardito, is one of those men who, like Tolstoy, struggle to tell the world that it has totally forgotten what Christianity is. "We say that the Father sent His Son to earth in the flesh and that the Son died ... in order to redeem us ... And we say further that every day we are allowed to repeat His sacrifice for our eternal salvation...