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...Vatican's official newspaper, L'Osservatore Romano, announced that the Chinese Communists have expelled 4,773 foreign Roman Catholic missionaries since 1947. According to the paper, there were 5,496 Catholic missionaries in China when the Communists took over...
...turn the army, at least, into a Prussian facsimile, Mussolini introduced the "passo Romano," a copy of the goose-step. When old soldiers and short-legged King Victor Emmanuel complained, the Duce's comment was: "People say the goose-step is Prussian. Nonsense. The goose is a Roman animal. ... It is not my fault if the King is half-size. Naturally he won't be able to do the parade step without making himself ridiculous. He will hate it for the same reason that he has always hated horses-he has to use a ladder to climb...
...days after the President's decision was announced, the world was startled by another disclosure, from an unexpected source. Pope Pius XII, said L'Osservatore Romano, semi-official Vatican newspaper, had personally intervened in the Rosenberg case, had asked the President for clemency. In the labyrinthine phrases of L'Osservatore (which are all but unintelligible to most Americans), it appeared that the Pontiff had appealed directly to Eisenhower. "As he has mercifully done in other similar cases," said L'Osservatore, "so also in this one he has not failed to intervene insofar as it was permitted...
...French novelist who died last year at 81, author of The Counterfeiters, Les Caves du Vatican, Theseus, etc., one of the topflight literary figures of the 20th century. The official decree banning Gide's work did not give a reason, but the Vatican's L'Osservatore Romano offered an interpretation: "He lived as a nonChristian, even as a deliberate antiChristian. The taste for profanity . . . was carried by him to blasphemy . . . His art had a feeling of his lasciviousness . . . The work of Gide from beginning to end is all orchestrated on a tone of ambiguous seduction...
These priests, known and beloved among the thousands of favelados, must gratefully welcome Dr. Romano, eleventh-hour hero though...