Pope John XXIII, for all of his dislike for Communism, is willing to be polite about it. Gone is the defiance that Pius XII used to hurl at the Kremlin; instead Rome makes such amicable gestures as inviting Russian Orthodox observers to the Vatican Council. Last week the Pope produced in Rome a living gain from his policy of easing tensions: Ukrainian Archbishop Josyf Slipyi of Lvov, freed after 18 years of Soviet confinement.
The spiritual leader of the Ukraine's 2,000,000 Byzantine-rite Catholics, tall, bearded Archbishop Slipyi, 71. is a Jesuit-trained theologian who...
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