Square 49

In Naples last week, Italian moppets were gleefully playing a new game--"To Rome in Holy Year." Invented by a Jesuit priest named Sergio de Gioia, who also instructs the youth of Italy with what he calls "a catechistic newspaper with comic strips," the new game is played by spinning a wheel to determine the number of squares the player may advance on his journey to the Holy Father.

Some squares, such as those marked "Courtesy" or "Communion," offer a new spin of the wheel or an advance of several notches. Others impose severe penalties. At square 17 the player loses a turn and must go back to number 10 for "yielding to the Devil's temptation." The same punishment is demanded for reading the red-splashed "evil press" (number 31). The worst penalty of all is attached to the last square--number 49--which sends the young "pilgrim" all the way back to number 5, the square marked "Religious Instruction." On square 49 is a picture of a grim man in a clerical collar, and the single word: PROTESTANTE.

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