Word: franzoni
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Even as the directive came down, the Vatican was still reverberating from a 10,000-word blast recently issued by Dom Giovanni Franzoni, abbot of the famous Benedictine monastery of St. Paul's Outside the Walls in Rome. Dom Giovanni, who is also a bishop, distributed his angry document, entitled "The Earth Is God's," to journalists at the June meeting of Italy's bishops in Vatican City. In it, he charged that the church is involved in "capitalistic exploitations at the economic, social and ideological levels." As one effort to reverse that alliance, Dom Giovanni announced...