Shocked by the "indecent undress" of foreign tourists, Angelo Giuseppe Roncalli, 76-year-old Roman Catholic Cardinal Patriarch of Venice, last month advised visiting priests and nuns to stay away from Venice in the summer. "It is," said the cardinal in a circular letter, "an open outrage against natural and Christian morals to wear in the public streets scanty clothing barely tolerable at beaches." In Rome the Vatican newspaper Osservatore Romano approvingly reprinted Roncalli's letter and added its own objections to foreign tourists who "wear in our cities clothing fit only for their...
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