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Eager to improve the lot of Iron Curtain Catholics, the Vatican would like to regularize these portents of good will—and may well establish formal diplomatic relations with Moscow some day. Last week, L'Osservatore Romano front-paged a theoretical article, written by Msgr. Cardinale, on the general necessity of consular relationships between sovereign states. Asked at a Rome press conference about exchanging consuls with the Vatican, Adzhubei certified that it was "a good idea." Another reporter wondered if Father-in-Law Nikita, who may visit Rome later in the year, would also call on the Pope. Atheist Adzhubei, who earlier had noted that "the Pope does not bite,'' shrugged, and quoted in answer the 15th century Christian mystic Thomas â Kempis: "Man proposes, but God disposes."
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