FIST FIGHTS IN CHURCH
NEW YORK, September 28. The hysterical state of mind still prevalent throughout liberated Italy was evidenced when fist fights broke out m the fashionable church of San Roberto Bellarmino, in Rome, says the 'New York Times" Rome correspondent. Till last week, the preacher was Father Mauro Chiramonte, who soothed his well-to-do congregation many of whom had made their wealth through Fascism, with kind words about the past regime. However the preacher last Sunday was Father Ante mo Pignatelli, who learnt just before the sermon that the Germans had shot his father and brother as hostages. He used bitter words against the Nazis and Fascists, whereupon one member of the congregation protested and others cheered. Soon pandemonium developed in the church The provincial head of the Jesuits prudently solved the difficulty by sendinr both priests from Rome to widely separated small parishes.
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Evening Post, Volume CXXXVIII, Issue 79, 30 September 1944, Page 7
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