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Last week L'Osservatore Romano, Vatican newspaper, even accused them of trying to take advantage of last month's earthquake (TIME, Aug. 4, Aug. 11) to convert the bewildered populace...
Other Italian papers hinted that this was the real reason that Prime Minister Mussolini had rejected earthquake aid from the Protestant-supported American Red Cross. L'Osservatore Romano last week struck directly at the Methodists' Collegio Internazionale. Catholic students of the college have complained because the school required each to have a companion when he goes to mass. Observed L'Osservatore Romano: "In a college where receptions are given at which Protestant girls are present; where there are cinema shows with the usual falsifications against the Papacy; where swimming is indulged in with ultra-modern conceptions...
...This," announced official L'Osservatore Romano, "is the most precious gift yet received at the Vatican...
Once more Pope Pius XI's loyal Count Dalla Torre, editor of Osservatore Romano rushed into the breach last week and attacked the Fascist Party. Cause of the quarrel: the perambulating Fascist theatre, grandiloquently known as "Car of Thespis." From distant Sardinia word reached the Vatican last week that the Car of Thespis was not only performing the works of bald, exotic Gabriele d'Annunzio, anathema to good Catholics, but that the Fascist players had added insult to injury by playing Gabriele d'Annunzio's La Figlia di Jorio (Jorio's Daughter) on the most...
Bitterly Osservatore Romano pointed out that this was not the first time that the Car of Thespis had offended. They had opened their second summer season in Rome itself with this same play, despite the fact that the Vatican Concordat expressly provided that the Fascist state would allow nothing to occur in Rome to injure its position as the home of Catholicism. Present at this heretical performance, and publicly applauding was none less than Il Duce himself...