¶ The Roman Catholic Church in Berlin has published statistics showing that Communist antireligious propaganda is paying off in Germany's East zone. Candidates for the priesthood number only 33%about half the normal expectation. Church membership "leakage" increased from 3,733 in 1948 to almost 10,000 last year.
¶ Two bestsellers went on the Catholic Index of Forbidden Books: The Second Sex (TIME, Feb. 23, 1953) and The Mandarins (TIME, May 28), both by French Existentialist Simone de Beauvoir. Her works, said Osservatore Romano, " spread a deleterious atmosphere of existentialist philosophy ... a subtle poison . . . Madame de Beauvoir defends emancipation...
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