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R COI SPECIAL MINDSZENTY NUMBER 'Pherne B 6950
Thursday, January 20, 1949. Seventy-sixth Year.
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Cominform Claims Another Victim Arrested Cardinal Hero of People
To Fly in The "New New Guinea
At a secret session of the CoThe arrest of His Eminence Josef Cardinal Mindszenty minform in Sofia last month, should not have come as a surprise to our readers. For the Communist leaders spent an entire day discussing Josef Cardinal last two months we have devoted a lot of space to the Mindszenty, 56, Prince Primate events that led up to his arrest. of Hungary. The decision to arAs the course of Soviet "Justice" will probably run its rest him had already been made; foul and inhuman course we decided to make this issue a An American missonary, the it remained to concoct just the special "Cardinal Mindszenty Number" to put before the right charges. (By N.C.W.C. News Service.) Rev. Charles Patrick, M.S.C., of people of W.A. facts and comments which will either be A charge of black-market curThe Hungarian Communist Reading, Pa., has left Australia rency speculation would anger hushed up or distorted by the major international news- daily "Nepszava" recently pub- in his private plane for New anyone living in black -market - agencies on whom our secular papers depend for their lished an editorial which included Guinea to begin mission work in a poem entitled "The New God," the Vicariate ridden countries behind the Iron information. Apostolic of RaCurtain. Sabotage of Hungarian In its issue of the 10th inst., the American News written by the revolutionary poet baul. Arpad Toth. land reform? That should go magazine, "Time," revealed the fact that the Primate's The poem included the follow- The 31 -year-old missionary of down well with the British socialists, who approve of land reform. arrest was decided on during a special secret session of the ing lines: "A new god has come the Sacred Heart passed flight Conspiracy with the Habsburgs? Cominform held in Sofia early in December. "Time" 's to you, people. His fiery eyes do tests at Essendon, Melbourne, not flash through clouds of in- and took his written aviation exThat was a brilliant idea; it version of the proceedings is given here. cense or from altar candles. amination here before setting out. would arouse the anti -monarchist elements in the U.S. Conspiracy treason, attempting to overthrow Semitism and the proceedings They do not gleam from gold- He is now qualified as an aviawith the U.S.? That was just as the democratic regime, espionage against the Jews are the shame framed darkened pictures of tion mechanic, commercial pilot, saints. This new god is not a helicopter pilot, and instructor in good: it would arouse anti-U.S. and foreign currency abuses." of civilization." stone statue worn smooth by the flying engines, meteorology and elements in Europe. Eventually The Communists gave out a long kisses of the faithful.. all the Communist delegates list of incriminating documents "FOR RIGHTEOUSNESS' He was navigation. Father Patrick began SAKE" not born in heaven. He is not far aviation training while a chapagreed on a draft bill of particu- said to have been found in "a lars against Mindszenty. metal box buried in a cellar in The reason for Mindszenty's away, nor is he hidden from us. lain at the Lewis College of arrest was plain. The Commun- The new god is born from earth Science and Technology at Lockthe Cardinal's palace." A BURIED BOX ists wanted to demonstrate that and blood. . He strides ahead port, Ill. He has 530 flying hours In Budapest, the Cardinal soon 1.500 PAIRS OF UNDERWEAR no power remained in Hungary and under the thunder of his to his credit and crossof what had learned been decided Communist newspapers took up that could stand against steps the globe trembles from country flights in the United during the Cominform's busy the hue and cry, screamed that The demonstration mightthem. States East to and West. Mexico. This is the red not day. He began to prepare for his Mindszenty's reputation as an prove entirely successful. Two god. The Seine shudders at his In new mission assignment arrest. anti -Nazi was unmerited. that he days after Mindszenty's arrest impact and tries to break its the his priest believes his plane, On the night after Christmas, had been "a notorious anti- was made public, the Minister of banks. Westminster trembles be- named Our Lady of the Sacred as the police convoy approached Semite." Climax of this farrago the Interior summoned four of fore him like Jericho. Across the Heart, will be especially valuable the Cardinal's residence, he was the charge that the Nazis Hungary's Roman Catholic bishgreen ocean his red shadow falls in carrying hospital cases, mediscribbled a hasty postscript on had arrested Mindszenty only be- ops who, jointly with their Pri- on the walls of the White House. cine and mail in the far-flung the envelope that held his mess- cause he refused to give up his mate, had staunchly held out Hosanna! New god." vicariate. age. He warned his fellow priests hoarded "1,500 pairs of under- against a government plan de to be sceptical if they heard that wear." signed to make the Catholic he had resigned, or had "conThis charge was a typical Com- clergy virtually employees of the fessed." Even if they were munist Truth was that State. The minister told the four shown his authentic signature on one daydistortion. in 1944, Hungary's Nazi hold -outs, on pain of imprisona confession, they should conFerenc Szalasi, had de- ment, to resign. They flatly resider his signing as the result of dictator, to set up headquarters in fused. Nevertheless, the Com"human frailty," i.e., the result cided the bishop's palace. Mindszenty, munist press trumpeted the news of his inability to withstand who was sheltering about 100 that Hungary's Bench of Bishops Communist torture. Jews in his cellar at the time, had agreed to their terms. Then he withdrew to his cham- declared that so long as he was Last week the Hungarian bers to pray. There, the police bishop, none of Szaiasi's men munists had the remarkableComgall January 5, 1949. arrested him. They had been would enter. The Nazis promptly to invite the Vatican to negotiate NEW YORK-(NC)-Mrs. Oksana Kasenkina, careful to come at night, to avoid occupied the palace. The police an agreement on the status of the the the repetition of a memorable found a sizable store of clothes Hungarian church, "regardless 52 -year -old Russian school teacher who escaped from the scene, just four years ago, when which Mindszenty had quietly of the personal case of MindsMindszenty was being arrested collected for Hungary's perse- zenty." The Vatican rejected the Soviet Consulate here last August by leaping from a third by Hungarian fascists. At that cuted and pillaged Jewry. The overtures as a "puerile mane- floor window and was a key figure in an investigation time he refused to be driven off clothes included underwear which uver." in a police car. He donned his Szalast had wanted for his own As for Mindszenty, the Hun- of communist activities in this country, today was received robes, and, followed by 20 priests, troops. garian government formally an- into the Catholic Church, as a member of the Ukranian walked to prison in broad day- Mindszenty, the son of a poor nounced that "under the Creek Rite. light, blessing the people who peasant, had risen to the highest of evidence against him weight [he] lined the streets kneeling in Church office in his land. Some made a confession." But, so far, Mrs. Kasenkina was received from the Russian prayer. of Hungary's peasants, who used the Communists have not Orthodox into the Church by the Rev. Church. This time, the more efficient to flock together in crowds of. lished any confession, withpubor Marianas M. Horishny, O.S.B.M., that while Father Horishny said she was in Roosevelt Communist police gave him 45.000 to hear him speak, have without his signature. Cardinal at St. George's Catholic Church, Hospital recuperating from inbarely time to kiss his weeping seen him, even in recent years, Mindszenty, despite the human 85 -year -old mother goodbye. working the land at his mother's frailty he knew, was a strong which is administered by the juries received in the leap, she Basilian Fathers, here. Father expressed a wish to a friend, Quietly, he said: "Very well," five -acre farm in the village of man. Just before his arrest, he and quietly entered the waiting Mindzent. Hungarians, who were had written: "This is now the Horishny said that. Mrs. Kasen- Mrs. Luba Terpak, to see a police gar, rosary in hand. Stick- now asked to believe that Minds- word of the Sermon on the kina had been under instruction Greek Catholic priest. Mrs. Tering closely to the Sofia decisions, zenty was an anti-Semite, re- Mount: "Blessed are they who by him since last September. He pak sent Father Horishny to see the government announced that membered his courageous war- are persecuted for righteousness' said she went to Confession and her and after talking with him, Mindszenty was being held in- time sermons attacking Naziism, sake, for theirs is the kingdom of received Holy Communion this the school teacher ,expressed a morning. desire to become a communicado on suspicion of in which he declared that "anti- heaven." "During my visits to her in the Father HoristmyCatholic. said Mrs. hospital," Father -Horishny said, Kasenkina told him that saw "I found that she had not lost her the Catholic Church she as the faith in God. She is a deeply re- world's main force against Comligious woman." munism. Mrs. Kasenkina was converted
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Terror Stalks Rumania
A "Happy" New Year
NEW VATICAN CITY (Radio NC).- from their homes at that hour, were arrested on October 30 for bers of YORK INC).-Five memRican medical Further details on the terror allegedly for investigation, but refusing to sign their "voluntary" mission aandCosta the priest accommethods used by the Communist - they usually do not return, the transfer to "Orthodoxy": the panying them were killed by Revs. Julius Ratiu and Ladislaus soldiers who invaded Costa Rica dominated Rumanian regime in information service states. its efforts to wipe out the Eastern According to the refugees, re- Teglasiu of Timisoara; John De- at Murcielago near the Nica- CLEVELAND (NC).-Rumanimarkable heroism is required to lirnan of Arad, and Nicholas raguan frontier, according to a Rite Church are revealed by the resist the terroristic pressure Brinzeu ans in America observed New and Joseph Vezoc of Costa Rican broadcast heard Year's Day as a day of mournInformation Service of the used by Red officials to force the Lugoj. They were to an here. ing-the first anniversary of the Sitcred Congregation for the faithful to sign a "voluntary" ac- unknown place, the taken information The mission had been sent by establishment
Oriental Church.
of the Communistic ceptance of schismatic "Ortho- service states. the Costa Rican Red Cross to The bulletin quotes the account doxy." Republic of Rumania. Relating that all six Byzantine establish a hospital in the battle People's Officials of refugees from Rumania acof Rumanian Refusal to sign the papers Rite Catholic Bishops organizaRu- area. The broadcast identified tions in the cording to whom Byzantine Rite means loss of employment and mania are under arrest, in United States called the bul- the deceased
priest as the Rev. upon their members to visit Catholics live in mortal dread of consequent starvation for the letin says that Bishop Valerian Jorge midnight visits from Communist family, the bulletin says. It gives Frentiu of Oradea Mare, who is were aQuesada. The others killed churches and offer prayers for doctor, an engineer, two the deliverance of Rumania from police. The faithful are taken the names of five priests who 74 years old, is very ill. men nurses and a pharmacist. the Red yoke.