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Italy's postwar constitution declared that "all religious confessions are equally free under the law"-a freedom often curtailed in practice by the unre-pealed Fascist laws. In the late '40s and early '50s, Protestant missionaries took into their churches many Catholics excommunicated by Pope Pius XII for voting Communist. But the bigger come-on was free medicine and food, leading Catholics to sneer at the Protestants as "Rice Krispies Christians...
...Jesuit renewal is overdue, part of the blame rests with Pope Pius XII, who squashed any overhaul at a 1957 General Congregation by warning the delegates against "the prideful spirit of 'free investigation.' " Another proximate cause was Father General Janssens, an ascetic and kindly Belgian who, for much of his term as "Black Pope," was too ill to handle the volume of clerical business that the Jesuit constitution demanded of him. Janssens, says one veteran German Jesuit, was "a noble spirit but not necessarily a great leader...
...Italian people by the Fascist dictator and his cronies. After the war, when the horrors of the Fascist regime came more apparently to the surface, I felt ashamed, bitter and miserable. The pride in being an Italian stayed with me because there were men like De Gasperi, Pope Pius and Pope John, who reminded me that there is a time when a country can go mad, and a time when it can reach the highest degree of greatness...
From Marx to Mao, Communists have belabored religion as the opiate of masses. From Pius IX to Paul VI, Roman Popes have denounced the evils of Communism. Last week, at the arch bishop's palace in Salzburg, Austria, 250 scholars from both sides of the argument concluded an amicable symposium on Christianity and Marxism...
...shape of the postwar world. When Dienbienphu falls, she exults, although the fallen are Frenchmen. The U.S. is decadent and bent on war. Russia is interested only in world peace, and fills the sky with Sputniks in proof of its military superiority, which will keep the peace. Pope Pius XII dies, and Mile, de Beauvoir, who renounced God at 15, accepts the news "with a certain amount of pleasure...