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Among three generals elected was Nino Pasti, former NATO deputy supreme commander for nuclear affairs, who ran for the Senate as an independent on the Communist ticket. Former EEC Commissioner Altiero Spinelli and all six of the prominent Roman Catholic laymen (plus a Waldensian priest), who defied Pope Paul VI by running under the sign of the hammer and sickle, also won seats in Parliament. Narrowly defeated, however, was Communist-sponsored Independent Gillo Pontecorvo, the film director whose credits include The Battle of Algiers...
...dissident priests were in deadly earnest, and they asked the Pope's blessing. Instead, the Vatican quietly passed the word that the priests were to be denied meeting space on Catholic premises. Eventually, they were forced to meet at the Waldensian Protestant church near the Tiber. The Vatican newspaper L'Osservatore delta Domenica observed that many of them had in effect already left the church they were purporting to liberate...
Since the papacy of John XXIII, hostility on both sides is giving way-slowly -to dialogue and cooperation. Catholic priests often attend lectures at the Waldensian seminary in Rome, and one Italian Protestant attended the Vatican Council sessions as an official observer. Today, Italian Protestants are cautiously hopeful about the Vatican's new interest in friendship with other churches. "We welcome any step toward Christian unity based on the word of God," says the Rev. Ermanno Rostan, moderator of the Waldensian Church. But, he adds, "we are also vigilant...
...wrapped in paper into my pocket. On my way home I discovered that the following words were scrawled on the paper: 'From a Catholic monk for a poor Protestant in Rome as a symbol of Christian solidarity.' I delivered the sum to the dean of a small Waldensian seminary in Rome ... He spoke to his students about this gift, and they, quite spontaneously, took up an offering among themselves from their modest means and sent the total to the abbot of a large cloister in Rome with the request that it go to someone in need...
Italian Protestant leaders received the decision with muted satisfaction. Dr. Giorgio Peyrot, professor of ecclesiastical law at the Waldensian Theological Seminary in Rome, pointed out that there would be trouble as long as the conflicting Fascist laws were on the books...