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Should the Virgin Mary be referred to as the Mother or the Mama of Jesus Christ? This question, while not the major issue in the controversy, was nevertheless one irritant in the latest quarrel between the Vatican and the French Roman Catholic Church. Long suspicious of French "progressive Catholicism," the Vatican finally cracked down on a matter that seemed less dramatic than the ill-fated Red-tinged Worker Priest movement (TIME, May 13), but was perhaps even closer to rank and file French Catholics. The issue: a "progressive catechism." which replaced the old, stodgy National Catechism throughout France last year...
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...much about the Gold of Dongo. Among them was the 63-year-old mother of Luigi Canali, alias "Neri," an idealistic Communist who was murdered a week or so after he signed the original partisan inventory of the treasure. "I remember," said she, "when my son told me, 'Mama, those thieves are ruining everything. I have seen such things!' ' When her son disappeared, Mama Canali looked up his old associate Dante Gorreri seeking information, but all she got was an embrace and the bland question: "What do you hear of Neri...
Then, struggling to control her voice, Mama Canali introduced a bigger name into the trial, that of the pudgy, would-be respectable leader of Italian Communism himself. Said she: "When Palmiro Togliatti came to Como, I saw him in the Piazza del Popolo. 'I am Neri's mother,' I said to him. 'My son worked hard for the party. What became of him?' 'Be calm,' answered Togliatti. 'Your son will be rehabilitated...