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High in the Alban hills near Rome, a new war college held its first sessions last week. The war for which its officers will train is the war against atheism, materialism and sin. Its commanding general is Italy's burning-eyed, hothearted little Jesuit preacher, Father Riccardo Lombardi...
...years Father Lombardi, 48, has been a kind of Roman Catholic Billy Graham, firing hearers all over Italy with new zeal. But Father Lombardi believes that the enthusiasm in the crowds he left behind will not last without continuing leadership. To provide that leadership, he set up a new organization: Per un Mondo Migliore (For a Better World...
...Panoramic View. To bring about a better world, says Lombardi. Christianity's leaders-bishops and priests, politicians and professionals, aristocrats and union men-must learn to bring Christianity out of the church and into everyday life. Three years ago he began organizing his training center, and meanwhile he tested his techniques on 3,015 priests, 260 bishops and about 2,000 laymen. Last fall the Pope showed his enthusiasm for the project by visiting the unfinished buildings-leaving the diocese of Rome for the first time any Pope had left it since the pontiffs lost their temporal power...
Meanwhile Joey was getting ready for the big time. An Italian conductor named Gino Lombardi discovered his conducting talent, started training him, e.g., records and scores every day before breakfast. After Joey shared programs in Miami and Long Beach, N.Y.. father Alfidi hired the Symphony of the Air and Carnegie Hall at a total cost of $10,000. Papa is sure Joey will become a great conductor. But if not, there is his baby brother, who, says Papa, already hums the first bars of Beethoven's Fifth at the age of two years...
...Riccardo Lombardi, S.J., spellbinding preacher of social responsibility to the Roman Catholic rich (TIME, March 1, 1948), is supervising construction of a building near Castel Gandolfo to be called "Pius XII Center for a Better World." "I shall dedicate what remains of my life," said Jesuit Lombardi, 47, "to creating half-a-dozen apostles and perhaps as many as 1,000 preachers who will continue my work . . . The Catholic camp must re-examine itself, and only the Pope can direct such a thing. But to do so, he needs the assistance of a stable organization that can dedicate the whole...