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Italy put off, ostensibly for "technical reasons," a visit to Rome by a Soviet trade mission that was to have resulted in a new $1 billion trade credit from the Italian government to Moscow. But it will not join in any general economic sanctions. One reason: it is an unwritten law of Italian politics that no government in Rome can do anything that would give the nation's powerful left an opportunity to picture Italy as an "American colony...
...introduced before the European Parliament in Strasbourg, Italian Communist deputies declared the invasion "an open violation of the principles of national independence and sovereignty." The Italians' goal, in the view of expert observers, is to win enough credibility to enable them to join in a coalition government in Rome...
...Catholics are confused, divided and deeply troubled. Polls show a majority of the membership has strayed from traditional doctrine and has little confidence in the bishops. At the same time, 84% said they were grateful for John Paul's personal intervention in summoning the bishops to Rome. Laments a schoolteacher in The Hague who joined 150 conservatives in a protest to the Pope: "Parents see that their children no longer understand what this church means...
Dutch bishops began publishing a new adult catechism, suspect in Rome because it sidestepped such teachings as the Virgin birth. Ecumenically minded parishes countenanced intercommunion with Protestants. Priests who quit to get married were retained on seminary faculties or continued, without episcopal approval, to function as parish ministers. Laymen and women began to carry out almost all tasks formerly reserved for priests. At a national meeting, Catholic delegates openly derided Vatican policy on priestly celibacy and birth control. Private confession virtually disappeared. There was even talk of breaking away from Rome, as England did under Henry VIII...
Kung has long declined to go to Rome unless the Vatican guarantees him an open hearing, which it has refused to do. When the decree was issued, he met with Bishop Moser, who agreed to take a letter from Kung to the Pope. After that, John Paul II held a five-hour meeting on the case with three Vatican officials, Moser and four other German bishops. The result: all participants agreed to stand firm, and Moser returned to notify the university and the education ministry of the state of Baden-Württemberg...