Word: collegio
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...these churches are guided by Italian ministers but looked after by the U. S. The Italian Government permits registered Italian Methodist ministers, as well as Roman Catholic priests, to perform marriages, funeral services and other sacraments. In Rome the Methodist Church runs a school for Italian boys: the Collegio Internazionale Monte Mario. There are a girls' school in Rome, an orphanage in Naples, a vocational school in Venice...
Other Italian papers hinted that this was the real reason that Prime Minister Mussolini had rejected earthquake aid from the Protestant-supported American Red Cross. L'Osservatore Romano last week struck directly at the Methodists' Collegio Internazionale. Catholic students of the college have complained because the school required each to have a companion when he goes to mass. Observed L'Osservatore Romano: "In a college where receptions are given at which Protestant girls are present; where there are cinema shows with the usual falsifications against the Papacy; where swimming is indulged in with ultra-modern conceptions...
When Pope Pius XI mounts to the roof of the Vatican he sees, on Monte Mario a mile to the north, something which vexes him. It is the Collegio Internazionale, Methodist institution. Of all Protestant denominations in Italy the Methodists have made themselves most disturbing to the Holy See by aggressive evangelism...