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Cardinal Lercaro. a hustling controversialist himself (TIME, March 30), called in the friar. Father Tomaso Toschi, 31, for a talk. Shortly afterward, Franciscan...
...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...
...Flying Friars normally operate in teams of three. Whenever they hear of a Communist meeting or rally, they crank up their ancient Fiat, and bear down on the local piazza, loudspeakers, documentary films and tape recorders at the ready, fighting for a chance to give their side a hearing, too. During the June Italian elections, one of the-friars, heckling a Communist speaker, quoted the man against himself. "But I never said that," the orator shouted, "not even in my dreams." The friar quickly turned on a recording of the Communist's remarks in question. Cried...
...Friar: You're a liar...
...Friar: Why don't you give him absolution...