Word: vatican
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Gronchi fancies himself ideally suited to mediate between East and West. He got his chance when an Italian official brought back word that Khrushchev would be glad to have Gronchi as a guest in the Kremlin. Gronchi was willing, but not all Italians cheered. The Vatican Radio gave pointed prominence to an article in La Civilta Cattolica that said that "the cold war cannot be solved by smiles and handshakes."' Il Quotidiano, the news organ of Catholic Action, declared that "Gronchi's proposed trip is a source of serious concern to all Catholics...
Himself a Catholic and a key figure in the Christian Democratic Party, Gronchi was so annoyed by the Vatican's attitude that he grumbled aloud that "among other matters subject to revision" was the Lateran Treaty of 1929, which regulates relations between church and state in Italy. In the end Italy's Cabinet approved Gronchi's mission to Moscow in January, but also unanimously agreed that any exchange of visits should be limited to "heads of state, to avoid the possibility that Khrushchev could reciprocate by coming to Italy." Russia's aging figurehead. President Kliment Voroshilov...
...GRAND MANEUVERS OF THE REVEREND ON VIA VENETO, chortled the next day's picture caption, while the subject of the story, privately reprimanded by the Vatican, prepared to return to the relative freedom and anonymity of New York. "Italy has nothing more for me," said Gussoni. "It's better to lose your health than your reputation...
Editor of Sin is 47-year-old Msgr. Pietro Palazzini, the Vatican's secretary of the Sacred Congregation of Council and author of numerous books, including a three-volume Principles of Moral Theology. His new book consists of 37 articles on man's sinful behavior, written by 36 authors (he contributed two). Most of the sinning in the book runs the familiar gamut from adultery to zealotry, but the special sins of the modern world make earthier reading. Moviemakers, writes the Rev. Salvatore Casals, should be careful to distinguish between evil and sin, and to depict...
...Plaza gathered 1,000 Catholics, most of them Peronistas, to open a "Christian Social Week." They rattled the walls with hymns, cries of "Viva Peron!" and "Viva Eva!" Early in October, Plaza blamed the 1955 church burnings on Masons, not Peronistas. Next day he led Peronistas before a visiting Vatican cardinal to petition the Pope to lift Peron's excommunication...