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Last week the onetime pastor of Balatonboglar, himself a refugee from Soviet tyranny, found that free men can remember quiet heroes. At a brief ceremony in the Washington residence of French Ambassador Herve Alphand, tall, scarlet-caped Bela Varga, 57, made a papal prelate during his 13 years in exile, was decorated with France's Legion of Honor, in remembrance of the refugees he saved...
...greatest danger to the church is not from Communism, Protestantism or spiritism as such, but from a Catholicism that is notably "weak in confronting modern progress . . . Since Hispanic Catholicism doesn't seem to be able to make the continent suitable for normal human life, and since, despite the papal encyclicals, the social situation in Latin America is one of the worst in the world, it is quite obvious that the people of Latin America look for other solutions." One of the solutions, particularly for "the lower, lower class": rapidly growing Protestantism (there are some 5,000,000 Protestants...
MONSIGNOR PAOLO MARELLA, 64, Italian with a broad background in papal diplomacy. Since 1953 he has held Pope John's former post as papal nuncio in Paris...
Died. Federico Cardinal Tedeschini, 86, a high member of the Roman Curia, datary to Pope John XXIII, onetime (1921-33) papal nuncio to Madrid, where he founded the militant Spanish Catholic Action, which later sided with Dictator Franco; of cancer; in Rome...
...rare white Burgundy, Croton-Charlemagne. says that in this century there has never been a year as abundant or as good. In the Romanée-Conti vineyards, the wine-men say that God waited until Archbishop Roncalli (who blessed the fields after the war, when he was papal nuncio in France) became Pope before answering his plea for a splendid crop...