Foreign News: The Wolf Enters

"I have a foreboding that something dangerous will happen to me for having spoken out so frankly, and the missionaries here fear that my fate will be the same as that of so many bishops in certain Red countries . . . We shall see. We are tranquil, but our sorrow lies in the fear that we may be expelled from China and have to leave our flock here and see the wolf enter the fold to make havoc of so many souls."

So wrote Archbishop Gaetano Pollio, a slim, scholastic man with a black goatee. He saw the danger coming, but...

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