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...tour last April through his Communist-riddled archdiocese of "Red" Emilia-a place where village churches are all but deserted and the dead are marched to the cemeteries behind the Red flag-Bologna's Giacomo Cardinal Lercaro came upon a rarely heartening scene. In the piazza of Casaglia, a town near Bologna, a young Franciscan friar was haranguing a sizable crowd through a public-address system. The message he had for his workingman audience: Communism will fail because it betrays the worker...
Toschi found himself at the head of a group of 20 priests from various religious orders, including Dominicans, Franciscans, Capuchins and Salesians, specifically assigned to bring Emilia's Marxist workers back to Catholicism. The cardinal's name for Father Toschi's group was Fraternltas (the Brotherhood), but Emilia has come to know them, by the speed and aggressiveness with which they operate, as the Frati Volanti (the Flying Friars...
Crack to Chasm? For this week the party ordered Reggio Emilia's Red-run labor unions to go out on a 24-hour "anti-traitors general strike." When support for the strike appeared dubious, it was postponed. The party organ, Unita, cried: "For every two traitors who leave, 2,000 new members join...
...largely subsurface. They were a crack that could become a chasm, with effects of unforeseeable consequence. The two heretics, it was said, would next issue a manifesto for an independent Italian Communist Party. Already, in the heart of the country's Red Belt, they had adherents. On Reggio Emilia's grey stone walks were chalked: "Long live Valdo and Aldo...
...Reggio Emilia in northeastern Italy (pop. 400,000) has 67,000 dues-paying Communists, where all Britain (pop. 49 million) has only...