Word: italian
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Protestants are making headway among Italy's Roman Catholics. So said the Vatican last week in a report compiled by the Paulist Fathers, who were assigned three years ago to survey Italian Protestantism, much of it ministered by U.S. missionaries. The country's 200,000 Protestants in a population of 48 million were often subject to police harassment and refused permits necessary for Protestant public activities, until last month, when Italy's highest court declared this requirement unconstitutional. The Vatican is far from pleased by such relaxation of the rules, asserts that the Protestants ("this condemned peril...
During 1956, Protestants converted 475 Catholics in Rome. This figure sounds small, but, as the Vatican report points out, it is roughly eleven times the number of Italian Protestants in Rome converted to Catholicism. Warned the report: "Agents of this propaganda don't present themselves as Protestants. They call themselves Christians . . . they use subtle and devious tactics. They insinuate doubts about principles of the True Faith . . . finally they initiate Protestant rites...
...protest against the Italian government's refusal to appropriate sufficient funds for art restoration, Italian Fine Arts superintendents have twice gone out on strike. Last week the government finally promised some emergency help: $32 million as a first move toward "the safeguarding of our artistic heritage." But with 1,270 churches and chapels 720 palazzos and villas (including Raphael's Roman villa), 200 fortresses and 120 masterpieces (including those by Titian and Tintoretto) in need of immediate attention, at least $100 million was needed to cover only the most urgent requests...
Gold of Naples. Italian Director Vittorio De Sica makes high comedy of low life in Naples, and wins some superb performances from Sophia Loren, Silvana Mangano, Toto and Vittorio De Sica (TIME...
Vitelloni. One of the best of the Italian-made movies-a biting but not bitter satire of small-town life, by Federico Fellini, who directed La Strada (TIME...