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WORLDWIDE CHURCH OF GOD
WORLD HEADQUARTERS
PASADENA, CALIFORNIA 91123
HERBERT W. ARMSTRONG
President and Pastor
Rome, Italy
April 22, 1976
Dear Co-Workers and Brethren,
Here in Rome the big news is the Italian political crisis.
Combined with other events, this could lead to an explosive
WORLD CRISIS such as never shook this world before.
It's not my intention to report the news, but to EXPLAIN WHAT
IT MEANS--WHERE IT MAY LEAD--how it may shake up Y O U R LIFE!
News reporters and newscasters may report the news. But they
cannot EXPLAIN it! They do not know what IS PROPHESIED.
Here, first, are the briefest highlights of the
E X P L O S I V E S I T U A T I O N at the moment.
In Rome violence is mounting. Communists are now predicting
a win in the forthcoming national election. It's the struggle
between Communism and Capitalism. An oil company executive was
shot in ambush here yesterday. The government--Premier Aldo Moro
now exists only in name--is actually in chaos. In big print on
the cover of Newsweek, on newsstands here yesterday, is the
question: "ITALY ON THE BRINK?" with the picture [and inside
cover story] of Communist leader Enrico Berlinguer.
Put this together with the Communist uprisings in Spain and
Portugal and other European countries and you have a more EXPLOSIVE
situation than is realized!
Put all this together with the mounting troubles within the
Roman Catholic Church--and put this together with BIBLICAL PROPHECY--
and the stage is all set for the greatest crisis of world troubles
in the history of this world.
Within the Roman Catholic Church, more and more priests and
nuns are breaking the church traditional authority and are marrying.
An ever-increasing number of lay Catholics in America and Europe are
defying the church edict on marital sex relations. The Vatican must
know that unless this drift away from church authority is broken by
sharp and drastic action, disintegration threatens the largest church
or religion in the world.
Biblical prophecy indicates the strong possibility right now
of a sudden sensational and world shaking drastic move by Pope
Paul--or, the possibility of his abdication and the emergence of a
new Pope of iron will--who will propose what the nations of Europe
have all wanted, but have been unable to bring about--a
politically united Europe!