Word: civilta
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Notwithstanding Paul's earnest exhortation, his funeral was hardly over before outside pressure groups began agitating over the sort of man who should become the next Pope. The ultraconservative religious movement Civilta Cristiana plastered Rome with posters demanding "a preacher of crystal-clear doctrine and a custodian of truth against the current heresy." Other right-wingers who follow France's semischismatic Archbishop Marcel Lefebvre drew up a broadside linking certain papabili (possible Popes) with Freemasonry. At the other end of the ideological spectrum, the U.S.-based Committee for the Responsible Election of the Pope issued in Rome...
...organization called the Flemish Action Committee for Eastern Europe. Scandinavia's SMOG (a Russian acronym for Courage, Youth, Sincerity and Genius) sponsored October's GUM demonstration and the one in Leningrad last week. Both groups, and several others, are in touch with Rome's Movimento Europa Civilta, whose Eagle Scout approach to political regeneration includes weekend camping trips and karate practice in the mountains. It was Europa Civilta that sponsored the TSUM caper in Moscow...