Word: lercaro
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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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...
...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...
...Piazza. The Flying Friars have somewhat the same mission as France's controversial worker-priests. But their tactics, as well as their tight, centralized direction, are vastly different. Says Cardinal Lercaro: "The worker-priests hide the fact that they are priests; they act clandestinely, whereas my friars defend the teaching of Christ in the piazza in broad daylight." Like Father Toschi, all the Friars come from working-class families, and they are used to taking hard knocks. (Some of them fought with World...
...prepared to dedicate the first monument in Italy to depict Christ as a worker: a 4-by-8-ft. cement bas relief by Roman Sculptor Egidio Giaroli showing Christ as a carpenter at work with two assistants under the gaze of Mary. Bologna's famed archbishop, Giacomo Cardinal Lercaro (TIME, March 30), came to town for the ceremony...
Giacomo Cardinal Lercaro, 61, archbishop of Bologna. A jovial and unpretentious man who six years ago was still a parish priest, Lercaro is now the most popular bishop in Italy. A wartime antiFascist, he made a postwar reputation in such Communist strongholds as Ravenna and Bologna, where he took the sting out of the Reds' propaganda by putting his weight behind social reforms. Hard-working as any Communist, he put on a spectacular Catholic youth festival in Bologna's Margherita Gardens (called the "Red Gardens") last month, outfacing Bologna's Red mayor (TIME, March 30). Lercaro feels...