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Well aware of the problem, Premier Alcide de Gasperi's government, which draws support from Italy's huge landowners, had failed miserably to carry out a sensible land-reform program. In Rome, Jesuit Father Riccardo Lombardi, who has carried his ardent revivalist "Crusade of Love" across the land (TIME, Dec. 20, 1948), cried: "The mighty of this world, the ecclesiastical and civil authorities, must do something for those who cannot wait because hunger gnaws at their vitals...
...people of Cagliari, Sardinia's rugged hillside capital, called it "the trial of God." Father Riccardo Lombardi, who last spring had launched a nationwide "Crusade of Love" (TIME, March 1), had been challenged to debate by Sardinia's No. 1 Communist, Velio Spano. The subject: "For Humanity's Good-Communism or Christianity...
...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...
...Father Riccardo Lombardi such experiences as this one in Sicily are part of the day's work. But the day's work to Father Lombardi smacks of the miraculous, for he feels himself to be a man possessed. "It is not I who do these things," he says, repeatedly striking his breast with his white, bunched fingers. "It is Jesus." And all up & down Italy, in the big cities and the little towns, the people believe that it is Jesus indeed...
...Results." Riccardo Lombardi was born 40 years ago in Naples to a devout, middle-class family from Piedmont. He began preaching while still a student at the University of Padua (he estimates that he has talked to a round total of 4,000,000 people). His favorite authors are the two great Catholic mystics, Saint Teresa of Avila and Saint John of the Cross, and in his tiny, bare, blue-walled room in Rome's Via Ripetta he spends most of his time praying. During his travels he tries to keep himself always "in communion with...