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...Pope to commemorate the 100th anniversary of the promulgation .of the Dogma of the Immaculate Conception (which holds that the Mother of Jesus Christ was preserved from original sin). For the occasion, the Pope drove through downtown Rome for the first time since the war. In the Piazza di Spagna, at the foot of the magnificent Spanish Steps, he stopped to place a bouquet of flowers at the column commemorating the Immaculate Conception. Then he drove on to the church of Santa Maria Maggiore (where, 55 years ago next April, at 23. the future Pope celebrated his first Mass...
14th Century Rome (Bettina Colonna, by Michel Durafour; Bobbs-Merrill). A souped-up account of the meteoric political rise and fall of Cola di Rienzo (fact), and how lovely, ruthless Bettina won and lost him (fiction), enlivened by pre-Renaissance skulduggery and dalliance...
When he took over his new parish three years ago, energetic Don Giuseppe Bon-insegna was well aware that he was a "missionary in the land of the faithless." The little village of Gaggio di Piano is the Reddest village in Bologna province, and Bologna province is the Reddest province in Italy. Only about 200 of Don Giuseppe's 3,000 parishioners were faithful Roman Catholics; the rest were more or less faithful Communists...
After the election last June, the 35-year-old priest felt more like a benighted missionary than ever. Though there was virtually no unemployment and the wine industry was flourishing, Gaggio di Piano gave the Christian Democrats only 161 votes against 1,020 for the Communist Party. Don Giuseppe decided that what he needed was a working-class appeal. He began buttonholing members of his infidel flock and telling them: "The essence of Christianity is work-material as well as spiritual. Why, Christ himself was a worker for 30 of his 33 years." Somewhat to his surprise...
When the day dawned, however, it was the Communists of Gaggio di Piano who rubbed their hands. Rain-heavy clouds scudded down from the Apennines and broke into a pelting downpour. No speech was possible at the ceremony; after a hasty unveiling, the cardinal gathered his sopping robes around him and made a dash for the rectory. But Don Giuseppe had his reward. Through the streaming rain and into the church for Mass, then out again into the drenched square, came almost 800 men. women and children-the biggest congregation the priest had ever seen in Gaggio di Piano...