"Stalin can't see into the election booth, but God can." With this slogan, in Italy's 1949 election, Catholic Action workers backed up the Vatican's excommunication of any Roman Catholic who gave his vote to the Communists. Last week the ten-year-old slogan was dusted off. The Vatican's Holy Office published a decree giving Catholics another set of instructions. It is not permissible, said the decree, "for Catholics to give their vote to those parties or candidates which, although not professing principles in contrast to Catholic doctrine, nonetheless . . . unite with Communists and by...
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