THE VATICAN: The Enemy from Hell

It is not recorded that the Pope ever asked: "How many divisions has Joseph Stalin?" He knows that Moscow threatens the world not only with its armies but with its perverted faith. Last week, in a 10,000-word encyclical on the heresy of Monophysitism,* the Pope made a strong plea for unity among "all Christians" to throw back "the enemy from Hell." Said Pius XII: "Who is not horrified at the hatred and ferocity with which the God-haters in many parts of the world threaten to stamp out or uproot whatever is divine and Christian? Against this united front, those who...

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