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...Humanism is as much of a modern blight as atheism, said Giacomo Cardinal Lercaro in an address to Catholic Action in Milan. "The development of humanism-understood as a shifting of history's and life's center from God to man-has become a part of man's mentality, and has grown through the centuries to the point that besides atheism there has grown up an indifference to God, a habit of mind wherein the need of God is not felt in that man feels sufficient unto himself. In this atmosphere God is relegated to the place...
...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...