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Father Riccardo Lombardi's "Crusade of Love" (TIME, March 1) marched on. In Naples of the volatile south, as in Milan of the sober north, the impassioned exhortations of the pale little Jesuit reached hundreds of thousands...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: The Age of Love | 3/22/1948 | See Source »

Rolling Stone. For the opening address of the Crusade, Milan's Lyric Theater had been jampacked, and thousands more heard loudspeakers in the square outside. On the stage Father Lombardi stepped from behind the red curtains, nervously rubbing his hands-a tired-looking, unimpressive little priest. When he spoke, his listeners forgot what he looked like...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: The Age of Love | 3/22/1948 | See Source »

Christian Charity. When Father Lombardi left the theater, the crowd forced him to the top of a parked truck. "Down with Communism!" they roared...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: The Age of Love | 3/22/1948 | See Source »

...there is much in Communism that must be adopted through Christian charity," cried Lombardi. He reproved the crowd for their demonstration and clambered down, his pale face shiny with sweat...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: The Age of Love | 3/22/1948 | See Source »

...Wills It." Jesuit Father Lombardi believes that the Jesus who came to earth at the decline of Roman civilization, and again manifested Himself in Saint Francis at the close of the Dark Ages, is about to come again to the troubled and despairing world. To prepare the way, Father Lombardi this month is launching his biggest undertaking-a "crusade" which he calls fronte dell'amore (the front of love). Love is his rallying cry and his bridge between the spiritual and the political worlds: "Men and women, arise! A new age approaches. . . . You were born...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Crusade | 3/1/1948 | See Source »

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