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...clear young voices intoned the German army's somber hymn, Ich hatt' einen Kameraden. Then a torchlit procession of 1,400 young Germans and 700 French youths wound down the damp hillside. The ceremony was part of a movement started by Father Theobald Rieth, a German Jesuit who set out ten years ago to turn the graveyards of two world wars into meeting grounds for a new generation of Europeans...
...Gideon Bible. A Roman Catholic who is relieved to be back in good standing after shedding Zsa Zsa, Hilton constantly composes prayers to the Almighty and has them printed in Hilton employee publications, likes to think that "God is a gentleman." His speeches are sometimes written by a Jesuit Priest, Father Thomas Sullivan of the University of Santa Clara, and at big receptions Hilton does his best to divide his time evenly between the clergy and the pretty girls...
...Hamlet, Paul VI may be marked for tragedy. Yet friend and foe alike agree that he has within him the seeds of greatness. Now he has an awesome throne and title that call for greatness. "He can be a stronger Pope than he was a cardinal," says one Roman Jesuit. "The moment he has nothing to fear he will be better...
Giorgio Montini's second son, "Giambattista," was a frail, ailment-prone child plagued by colds, who had to be educated privately after poor health drove him from the Jesuit school in Brescia. But at the age of 20, young Montini was well enough to enter the seminary of Sant Angelo in Brescia. He was, then as now, somewhat withdrawn and bookish. One teacher recalls him as the best pupil he ever had, while some fellow students detected in him the quiet charisma of the born leader. "Never have I met anyone who had to say so little to establish...
...Montini, the church's task was to convert Communists, not combat them -and the weapons of conversion were spiritual. He invited Franciscan and Jesuit preachers to conduct Billy Graham-style crusades on Milan's streets, and in a city with more than 1,000 churches, added at least ten each year -primarily in the new suburbs. For Montini, the missionary task was to conquer through Christian love those "unhappy ones who gather behind Marx," to reassure them that, as Jesus "still loves them strongly, immensely, divinely," so the church supports "the profound need for a new and worthwhile...