Word: lombardis
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...people of Cagliari, Sardinia's rugged hillside capital, called it "the trial of God." Father Riccardo Lombardi, who last spring had launched a nationwide "Crusade of Love" (TIME, March 1), had been challenged to debate by Sardinia's No. 1 Communist, Velio Spano. The subject: "For Humanity's Good-Communism or Christianity...
...contest was arranged with the rigorous etiquette of a duel. The two contestants first chose their seconds: a local Catholic layman and a Communist poet. When Father Lombardi refused a public out-of-door contest ("I have no fear...
...appointed day at 5:30 p.m. Velio Spano, in a natty brown double-breasted suit, crossed the little piazza in front of the church and entered the hall. A minute later Father Lombardi arrived, his face muffled in a black shawl. The contestants smilingly shook hands and took their seats behind a red table on the theater's stage. In the audience their supporters, divided by the middle aisle, sat quietly on seats marked with their names in big letters. As the seconds checked their watches, Father Lombardi murmured to Spano: "When Communism falls-as I'm sure...
...Father Lombardi's "Crusade of Love...
...Roses. In Naples, the same week, Father Lombardi landed at the Capodichino airport-just as a huge truck sped into the city, bearing, under a gilded, pillared canopy, the picture of the Madonna di Pompeii. A salvo of 21 guns sounded in greeting, showers of flower petals filled the air and hundreds of thousands of candles were...