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...newest Pinocchio (Pinoculus this time) sold 6,000 copies in a month, and schoolmasters all over Italy were ordering more. Even the Vatican's top classicist, Monsignor Antonio Bacci, was plugging the book as something that Latin teachers have always neededan easy bridge between grammar and the classics. "Here," said Monsignor Bacci, "at last is something...
...thus built up have risen the twin bishoprics of Bui Chu (pronounced Booey Choo) and Phat Diem (pronounced Fat Zee-em). In a predominately Buddhist country and against the rising tide of Viet Minh Communism, they have established their predominately separate existence as independent Roman Catholic theocracies ruled by Monsignor Le Huu Tu, Bishop of Phat Diem, and his protege Monsignor Pham Ngoc Chi, Bishop...
...border, where mountains leap suddenly from the rice plain like rocks from the sea, the Viet Minhs occasionally raid the bishop's territory. But so far there has been no big attack. Bui Chu and Phat Diem still manage to maintain their independent existence. At the back of Monsignor Le Huu Tu's episcopal palace, the lathes grind out crude grenades, mortars and one Rube Goldberg contraption, proudly described by one of the priests as "our flying bomb...
Three years ago, Manzu was reproved by the Pope for modeling crucifixions in which all the figures were shown nude. Though his new figures were fully clothed, some Vatican officials still raised objections. "The idea of putting a woman [St. Joan] in an armored suit," huffed one elderly monsignor, "may be nice for the cinema but not for St. Peter...
...show, but a few found it bewildering. Looking at a red-lacquered altar from Japan, a woman from Germany exclaimed: "I just couldn't pray properly before such a thing!" Since a Japanese might have equal difficulty at a Gothic altar rail, the objection pretty well illustrated Monsignor Costantini's point: that native art may serve faith better than the alien kind...