The Russians found another admirer in the Rev. Antonio Laberge, A.A., 40, a native of Rhode Island. As new pastor of the Church of St. Louis des Français, he will soon be the only Roman Catholic priest in Moscow.
Father Laberge found an intellectual challenge in Russia's godless masses. In the contour of the city itself he saw an exotic, refreshing beauty. Last week with the qualification that his views were personal and unofficial, he told Brooks Atkinson of the New York Times: "The buildings have real style. I never saw a place like this before. The view of the Kremlin from...
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