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...East, including at least 150 multimillionaires in Europe and the Western Hemisphere, make regular and generous contributions to the cause. The movement also earns revenue by operating business enterprises, including a modern $8 million chicken farm in Syria. For a time Palestinians ran a popular and profitable discotheque in Rome. It was shut down by authorities, presumably because it might serve as a target for Israeli counterterrorist attacks...
...concern is probably the possible reverberations that Eurocommunism, if allowed to develop unchecked, might have among the captive regimes of Eastern Europe. If seductive ideas about an independent Communism were allowed to take root there, they would not only threaten Moscow's determination to maintain itself as the Rome of international Communism. They would also threaten the East-West balance of power, the informal system of spheres of influence in Europe that the Soviets have sought to maintain and legitimize since World...
Stormy clouds lowered over the hamlet of Ecône in French Switzerland last week as Archbishop Marcel Lefebvre reached the point of no return in his "traditionalist" insurrection against the Pope of Rome. Some 4,000 Western European followers had flocked in by bus and train, along with 80 priests from round the world. As they sat on wooden benches and freshly mowed grass, the white-haired archbishop delivered a defiant, Luther-like sermon...
...fewer than three times. At a weekly audience last month, he pointedly stated that "Jesus himself admits the possibility of excluding from fraternal communion" anyone who threatens the unity of the church. On June 20 the Pope sent the archbishop a personal, handwritten letter beseeching him to obey Rome. At a ceremony to install new cardinals, just two days before the ordinations, Paul issued his final plea. "Our predecessors, to whose discipline he presumes to appeal," Paul said, "would not have tolerated a disobedience as obstinate as it is pernicious for so long a period, as we have so patiently...
...there are large numbers of Roman Catholics upset by the innovations since Vatican II. Some Vatican sources think Lefebvre might have a potential flock of 50,000 or 60,000, centered in France, Germany and England. That could produce the biggest rupture since the Old Catholics broke with Rome over the First Vatican Council's decree on the authority and infallibility of the Pope...