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...Vatican appointed the Rev. John P. Boles to the prestigious post in a decision announced this week by Cardinal Bernard...
Seems President Reagan wasn't the only world leader with operatives in THE VATICAN. A story making the rounds in Europe has it that the kgb planted a mole in the Holy See. Boris Alexandrovitch Solomatin, the KGB's Rome chief from 1976 to 1982, claims that Soviet intelligence viewed the Vatican as a hotbed of diplomatic secrets. Trouble was, once the KGB had recruited its St. Peter's agent, it had a little difficulty controlling him: apparently his religious convictions interfered with his supersecret political mission...
...unusual form of assistance. Its armed forces need chaplains. But with seminaries in Mother Russia shut down for the past 70 years, nobody is sure how to proceed. The Pentagon plans to help its new brethren-in-arms establish a chaplains corps. Looks like pretty soon the Vatican will have officers in the KGB's homeland...
Nonetheless, the primates decided not to condemn Catholicism. They believe that they have friends at the Vatican, although some wonder privately if Pope John Paul can be considered one of them...
...Administration consulted with the Vatican on other matters as well. In Lebanon, the Reagan Administration adopted policies favoring the interests of the church and Maronite Christians. On several occasions, Casey used church channels to deal with the contras, though the Vatican itself took no official position on the war in Nicaragua. (Indeed, the Pope issued numerous appeals for peace in Central America and implicitly criticized the U.S. for prolonging the conflict.) Cardinal Laghi, who had served in Nicaragua in the early 1950s as secretary at the Apostolic Nunciature in Managua, played a key role by assuring contra leaders that...