ITALIAN POST-WAR anticommunism; poster affixed inside the churches in the confessional with extracts of the Decree of the Holy Office on July 1; 1949. 'To whom it confesses: 1. it is not lawful to subscribe to Communist parties nor favor them; and the faithful who knowingly and freely do; as long as you do not amend; can not be admitted to the sacraments. 2. It is unlawful to publish or disseminate or read books; magazines; newspapers or leaflets that support the doctrine or practice of Communism; and even collaborate with them in their writings; and the faithful who knowingly and freely do it; until you can not amend be admitted to the sacraments. 3. The faithful in the political or administrative elections give the vote to the parties that follow the doctrine of Karl Marx commit gross negligence. 4. Parents and guardians who entrust their children to be educated communist associations according to the principles of that party (APIs) are excluded from the holy Sacraments; and are also the same except for the children; until they are part of these associations. 5. Then those who profess or defend or make propaganda of the materialist doctrine of Communism and anti-Christian or s'incaricano to teach it to the children; thereby incur excommunication of the Catholic faith as apostates. Decree of the S. Office July 1; 1949. '