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Last week the Pope granted a special audience to "Miss Ideal Woman" of Italy, 18-year-old Miss Maria Paola Carletti, winner of a beauty contest that earned this unique papal approval by rating cultural, moral and housekeeping gifts higher than mere physical beauty...
Point No. 5 stresses the need for "a Christian rebellion to match the rebellion of the Communists. That 472 million Catholics should continue to do nothing is an intolerable situation." No. 6 stresses that the moment for this Christian rebellion is now. Point No. 7 backs this up with papal authority. Point No. 8 calls for individual rededication, and Point No. 9 is repentance for man's individual and collective sins...
Died. The Rev. Edmund Aloysius Walsh, S.J., 71, geopolitician, longtime foe of Communism and leading authority on Russia, who founded (1919) and directed (1919-55) Georgetown University's School of Foreign Service; of a brain hemorrhage; in Washington, D.C. Jesuit Walsh directed (1922-23) a Papal Relief Mission in Russia, denounced Communism bitterly on his return to the U.S., warned against disarmament, advocated universal military training after World War II, said (1950) that the U.S. would be "morally justified'' in starting a preventive A-bomb war if it had "moral certitude" that a sneak attack were imminent...
...propagandists had to go on was a 15-minute "courtesy call" that the Russian charge d'affaires in Rome. Dmitry Pogidaev, had begged of the papal nuncio to Italy. Monsignor Giuseppe Fietta. During the meeting Pogidaev thrust upon Fietta two familiar "peace" propaganda documents, and Fietta read his caller a stiff lecture on the sad state of religious freedom in Russia. Then Pope Pius XII himself slapped down the reconciliation rumors. Before any agreement with "the enemy" could be considered, he reiterated, the church must have full freedom-not merely freedom of worship but freedom "to care...
Gabrielle, or Sister Luke, as she was known in religion, resolved her inner conflict not by denying her faith but by requesting and receiving a papal release from her vows in 1944. As told by Author Kathryn Hulme, herself a Roman Catholic convert, Sister Luke's ordeal has the characterization, pace and dramatic intensity of a good novel. A Book-of-the-Month Club choice to be published next week, The Nun's Story (Atlantic-Little, Brown; $4) looks into a world most readers could scarcely enter in any other...