The World - News from Feb. 17, 1987
Roman Catholic and Soviet officials have no firm plans to meet in the Soviet Union next year to debate whether God is dead, a Vatican official said. “The meeting is only a hypothesis,” chief Vatican spokesman Joaquin Navarro said. The Rome daily newspaper Il Messaggero reported Sunday that both parties have agreed to hold a Catholic-Marxist debate in Leningrad in the spring or fall of 1988 on the topic, “Is God Dead?” The newspaper said the conference would be a major step toward improved Vatican-Soviet relations.
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