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...introduced to group sex. The Love Affairs of Jesus Christ, for which the Danish Ministry of Culture has appropriated some $125,000, is already kicking up an international furor. In Copenhagen, 5,000 youthful Christians marched in protest, and from the balcony of his summer palace in Castel Gandolfo, Italy, Pope Paul spoke forcefully to a group of pilgrims about the "ignoble and blasphemous outrage." Two days later, an outfit called "Catholic Moralists" threw homemade bombs at the Rome residence of the Danish ambassador and left a note calling Denmark "the pigsty of Europe." Meanwhile, French authorities forbade production...
...content with thrillers and bestsellers, which are often of doubtful moral, human and literary value," Pope Paul VI counseled some visitors during his working vacation at Castel Gandolfo. The summer reader should also avoid "those disgraceful magazines, which are now invading and infecting every place." Instead, concluded the Pope, "you should feed your spirit on clean and high thoughts...
...people to stone. When he saw a painting of Medusa in Florence he called it "the head of a Madonna created by purgatory." He made a paper-cutout version of the Medusa's head, and pasted it onto a page in conjunction with a printed view of the Castel Sant' Angelo in Rome...
...Castel Gandolfo had a different kind of impact on the reputation of the papacy during the later years of World War II, when the estate was used as a refugee camp and also briefly housed a French army contingent of Moslem Moroccans. The Moslems, noting the presence of some 3,000 women refugees, were duly, if mistakenly, impressed. Italian Novelist Curzio Malaparte records the impression in his book The Skin: "Three thousand wives! The Pope was undoubtedly the most powerful monarch in the world...
From the Back. Not everybody agrees on the importance of the works. Part of the dissent is ideological. The count's title was bestowed on him by Mussolini after he made a politic gift of several statues and other art objects to the Castel Sant' Angelo in Rome. Part is sheer Italian snobbery. Contini-Bonacossi was the son of peasants, who made his fortune in South America by methods that are still muffled in obscurity. When he returned to Florence, he set himself up as an art dealer and put his collection together between...