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PART III: DEFENDER OF THE FAITH
THE
MINDSZENTY STORY
af
Censorship Of Religious Radio Broadcasts
Germon
BY THE VERY REV. DR. NICHOLAS BOER
such a comprehensive study Hungarian radio, a addressed
China. Now, in the United arrested and held in custody yet the Church.
diocese.
We do not want to itemise the cases of priests who had to endure for a while the barrage of delibe rately invented Press attacks,
The
certain
were then suddenly arrested, and capable
certain expressions
because
and
하
of the
A
of
7
and
to
13
tain,
moun-
the
thugs
of
of stepa
Good Morning
Couro
Buo Dai is now an ex-ex-om- peror. Not to Imply of that he is uny double-crosser.
•
Who cares about a green yolk It's the red yoke we're worrying
over.
Confucius say to defending gen= wal, good rain worth many guns.
*
Now We Have Been Told
Ripley says that an American schoolteacher who taught until she was 84 had never been to school. Some of those types we met during the war must have been her pupils.
•
the
Now we have all China divid-
•
•
I'm gettin' me gold from Mos-
cow
I'm covered with Jools from
Joe! An' though I am only on part
timo
Plenty of Comrades reckon I'm
prime.
Spyin
about on me night-offs With this on the other atomic
toffs...
(Chaps who are simply cram-
med to the cranium With all the latest abaht
uranium)
घ
In flash chop houses And
cabarets. Cor, this bein' Temptress,
was This
never the life I knowed In the old crool days Down the old Kent Road.... Once I might have
walker
become a
But now I'm standin' for Ana,
Pauker!
broadcast, Apart from small 40,000 people gathered in Cson-in honour
of the Virgin of differences, the broadcasting of grad from every district of the Fatima. The whole mountainside
Plains;
Baltimore police booked church services went on smoothly Great Hungarian
they was crowded with the people of during this period.
came in carta, on foot, on horse- Budapest. The mistaken rumour Living Buddha because he wan- When the Armistice ended the back and
on bleycles
dered about in a long green robe from the had arison that the Cardinal was Fears are being increasing-
Church proposed to send the text most distant small settlements expected to proach. Police jeeps and thin white trousers.
the
Sure would help the FBI ✰ all ly expressed that the United
after the broad. On September 8 and 9, 1947, appeared at the foot of the We do not want to enter cast to the archives of the radio; when the Cathedral
Szom States is ceasing to take any
and the police began to uninvited guests wore their n
tiona!
costumes. Communists in Asiatic affairs.
the disputo into minor details even in because of
over this bathely, destroyed in the war but disperse the crowd and arrest the interest
several broadcasts
could cultivate Stalin mustachlos Wero robullt from its
w ro- praying men and ruins,
women, who, and address all cops as comrade. The fears are probably based
On the initiative of the consecrated, the Cardinst-Primate in alarm, attempted to chcape in on the decision of the Tru-though, perhaps, the daily
hundred thousand amall groups across the re-built Catholics was verbal agreement was later made people who had gathered from all Francis Joseph Bridge and joined into two parts--the Liberated of the man Administration, sensible life
Church from every point of view, embittered most of all by between the
the over Western Hungary. On Sep- the proccession which the Francis- and the Free.
16, 150 men made a cane of the Inner Town had or- further this circumstance-and there radio authorities. It was agreed tomber not to waste any
that the sermons should be sub-pilgrimage, led by the Cardinal genised on the same day in hon funds in aiding the tottering fore we do not enumerate
mitted before the broadcast, as to
Maria-lour of tho
of sanctuary
St. Anthony of Padua. Mata Hari, 1949 of Nationalist Government
all the priests who were this rule applied to everybody Re
days later Remote. Eight
thehough this traditional
proces- the President of the Re-Condjutor-Bishop of Esztergom sion, which consisted usually of States' ambitious programme often in cellars or in damp
led eighty thousand women
old wonten and small girls, had the broadcasting ported led of aid to Korea, comes evi- solitary cells, without any should not exercise any censor- Archbishop
the same pot; finally
the been exprowly licensed the
by of Eger conducted police.
nevertheless the fears are icgal sentence, often merely dence that these
there, secret they might fifty thousand men Economic assis because of some wild sus-apply At the Church censor for In the meantime the Congress of peared and began to break it unl suddenly ap- ill-founded.
the changes in tance to the tune of US$150,-picion.
expressions
took place in Eger, where
the brutal manner. They 000,000 for the coming fiscal Primate, their number from or sentences, the Church censor another hundred thousand people fired shots, used fine butt hy rofuse gathered from Northern Hungary rubber truncheons to scatter the year is being asked of Con- the beginning of these ar- being free to atcept or
auch
If he nccepted
plad to hear the Cardinal. In the fret
women and young It is a practical de- rests, up to mid-summer 1948, them, the broadcast was to take any of October the some Con- girls, and gress.
ruthlessly employed that, in the
On Budapest, monstration
the entire place; if not, it was to be cancellgress was held in
Lo was equal to
their weapons
the disperse words of the State Depart clergy of a medium-sized ed. An the radio demanded more October 4 the Primate addressed crowd which was singing hymns. The height of the terror was changes in the text, 80,000 young men in the morning. and more the withdrawal of ment,
Church broadcasts were cancelled while in the evening he spoke to reached by the series the United States forces
with increasing frequency. And 100,000 working men
in the taken o prevent the ancient as inter broadcasting au- from Korca in no way in-
Between
traditional procession of the Holy the October
poys! repeatedly faced Right, Lt had been the immemorial dicates a lessening of the
thorities demanded not only that bubb were similar which
crowds. United States interest in that
huge
Hungarian custom of
Catholics misinterpretation of
After a winter pause the great to follow this relle on August whose present country. In a wider field, it
present whereabouts are to- should be changed, but declared
the Virgin's Your 20, St. Stephen's Day, and to is also indication of continually unknown. Many priests were whole
for started sermons unsuitable
afresh in the
spring of honour the miraculously preserv their 1949. ing American interest in the beaten up by Communist-incited broadcasting
At
Baja, ed right hand of Hungary's firat molys
Ma anniversary holy king. In 1948 the Commu- Far East. The State Depart daily to the local
many have had to
roport contents
(though without giving Szeged, on the tenth Police: what is retailed
13 detailed explanation), tho CAF-
Eucharistic World Connist police prevented this cele- ment spokesman has made
even more trople, many have born dinal-Primate instructed the ap gress of Budapest, similar large bration. In the same way an al- United furved to it plain that the
act as police Informers; propriate
Church auittority to multitudes llatened to the Car Sempt was made to prevent the States has
We might enumerato many and announce that the no intention of
Church did
of encouragement, halding of the Holy Virgin Day dinal's words how the and painful instances: factory
and coolation unsupported
hope. not wish any Masses, sermone or comple
And leaving
Celldomolk and Zalægerszeg commitiona have prevented the
to be broadcast though, because of the repeatedly on September 12, 1948. religious tolls Government commitles freely elected
retreats of the workers; after July 10, 1948. religious
proclaimed propaganda slogan of
Hour Of Persecution chosen by open voting under how priests had been excluded
religiould not
freedom, the Govern-
"More Sobriety in Singapore. the surveillance of the United from prisons and interment camps
The official Church roports are 19 Cases Last work." in principle ban and forbidden to administer the In the exercise of its censor- ment
hero because thore: Nations.
Mary
the can be no clearer proof that, by "London playgoers are Year, seeing The decision should cause acraments; how fathers of large ship, the Hungarian radio was the great manifestations of the reproduced
families have lost their jobs and not
over Holy guided only by the
crowds, it did every-September 1948, the hour of the cattle," says a writer. surprise. The United their votes because they wore sensitivity of a
new and young tremendous
thing
to prevent the pilgrims open persecution of Church and churchgoers; Great Britain, regular
how all regime. States, like
places. religion in Hungary had struck. rationed, there is probably more Catholic churches and meeting tenois
and the Revelation
had to be obtained This was the moment of historical champing than ever in the stalls. has ample reason
places all over the country are Gospels from quotation in church Police
"""prosto." for the processions; these permits
when the Communist tinuing interest in the well-under the striciest supervision of sermons in commenting on for
Join the civil service and work being and prosperity of the the secret police...
political and everyday events: were constantly delayed in order regime decided to adopt article
to obstruct
124 of the Stalln the
yourself into an early groove. Constitution necessary Pre- Asian peoples. Both are We could also recount in detail more-over, the Church was ex-
that It would not be doterred by parations. Later much applications
consideration of foreign A news agency reports that a great trading nations and how Church teachings and preach pected to contribute
sup were left unanswered. The erec-any
edom of 400-year-old bed offered for sale great industrial powers. Both ing had been made dimeuit; how the spiritus) and doxical su
three pastoral letters of the Bench port of the new system.
tion of loudspeakers was forbid-
London WILN uncomfortably in public squares and streets.religion could be reduced now to in den been suppressed, such need raw materials produc-
had of Blahopa
the Church to Sometimes on the days of meet the purely private emotions and narrow by modern standards. ed in Asia, and both manu-Since the autumn of 1947 double impossible for
Perhaps it electric thoughts of the people confined to
was one Queen processions Inga
and
though even thore Elizabeth couldn't sleep in. It might not be safe 1t
to practise ment and consumer goods minary censorship is needed for on the ether; it was no
the
Educational Oce of
Gospel to villages and towns. the possible to bring the
On other occasions huge Com-it. urgently required by Asia's Church to issue any communica- those who were ill at home or
On August 16 the romote munist maas meetings and party
Magyar Right and humbly following the communities millions. The United States, tion. Even the Cardinal has been to Isolated
the church. When the demonstrations were organised Kurir, the official news service of Britain and the Western forced to have the pastoral letters from
onco again to colebrata St. by the Bench of Bishops broadcasts were finally cancelled within a radius of twenty miles. the Hungarian Catholic Church, at Relic. This year we wished democracies are
the Catholic population of Catholic Church The
Stephen's Day on August 20, But the only reproduced clandestinely and dis- | the"
Hungarian
district
forced to attend As every year, according to this wo find impossible for the sources from which such tributed secretly among the dio issued the following statutenti
lorries the ancient tradition, the people following reasons: Intention them, and were fetched commodities can
**In
by eesan centres and thence to the
"Tlmit,
recent
and buser, Cowed, desperately
Bro prepar- the freedom
"3. On August 3, 1943, the supply the Asian demand. parish churches.
for their
for jobs and ing plously
the festival National Committee of the Actio In the new schools religious Church in proclaiming the Word anxious There is, therefore, a close instruction has been made partly of God has
of
inst and become
sainted Catholics submitted the request to more and families, for their personal liberty.
king, S the lorries broadcasting. they cil
St. Stephen's Day. and bond and inescapable
they climbed into
Every
should wholly impossible by organised more evident
red flags to year brings greater enthusiasm, bo permitted to organisa the mutual self-interest between torror. In Cepel, the great indus- Several times broadcasts of ser- wore carried under
and the listen to Rakoel or some ether but also a humble Christian spirit traditional Procession of the Holy Asia and the West in that trial district, the religious instruc- mons, church singing
half-hours have been Communist Minister. Sometimes In the approach to our greatest Right. The date was August 20, their
com-wors have been debarred from cu cancelled. The Church authorities all wheeled transport economies are
festival and the accom- the time 4 p.m. and the route tering the factories,
boon banned, i stata that they lack the necessary † fiscated for forty-eight hours;/t of a huge multitude of from the plementary.
St. Stephen Baxilca, instruction has
Andrasty Without good markets for There in A persistent campaign unfettered possibilities of Roman horse inspections were ordered; the Holy fight along the tradi- along the
Russian soldiers tional procciatorial route. Last Square of Heroes. Catholic text-books bo- Catholle religious broadcasts, and the billeting of their produce, the countries against
those broadcasts will wae announced, so that no one year more than half a million
Up to August 11, 1948, no of the Far East will be un-cause of the tenets they contain, therefore
It is to was able or dared to leave his of the faithful passed along the reply was received. All this can be only hinted at, forecase as from July 10,
broadest streets of our capital, regretted able to secure foreign cur-
that Hungarian | home. Catholics will have to forgo
singing the praise of the Holy (To be continued on tomorrow) these broadcasts.
Pos `Floor, National City Bank of N.X. Bldg. Tol. 27280. Į
Kowloon Tul: 67135- (Entrance on Duddell Bizwol)--
no
for
cori-
Gospel Excluded
it desired to exclude the form the holy
of
circumstances
it
to
to
policy, and that the freedom
facture capital goods, equip-ministerial permisalon and prell- teach the Word of God Pnger power or water was cut off in the their homes,
come
to
of
or
to
rency to buy the essentials every single item would demand be
a chapter to itself.
Illustrations
We
дго
in
was
Win con
Cruel Methods which they do not produce
In the end they banned the sale "AL the same time we must themselves. Without credits All these stops prevent the
state that these Church broad of collective and even Individual railway tickets on the railway and other aid from the West, exercise of religion itself,
casts have usually been put on Unes of each district. And if, in this by.
followed they cannot hope to achieve might illustrate
air, preceded and the which instances
unsultable spite of all this as happened at that improvement in
by other programmes the specific typical
and hundreds of Though religious Croc- Dy
Maringyud-tens Hem for the dignity of
religious thousands gathered secretly, walk- higher standards of living
dom fa
La emphasised Principle
and for the truths
'ing for days' across forests and which their peoples need and
Propaganda, broadcasts
proclaimed in them." have made im-|
Han swamps, reprisals started in tho and demand. And without the
In 1047 the Catholic of
villages and
din- towns or the this Tossible
the preaching of the
Rary proclaimed that
year
The measures taken were through the radio, while should be dedicated to the Virgin riot.
loss of processions have been Mary.
extremely It was planned that the
ards of living, they will not develop into large buyers of
In
cruel:
jobs,
a marked rise in the stand by oanned in cities andminelion of this year should transters, internment and deporti
pecially Great Britain and that the State-owned radlo should involving hundreds of thousanda image
the United States-excels. The United States' 'initiative
in the Far East is for the portion of the various recor- bear on, the religious broadcasts, monastery lying in o
ing_
to its own
requirem
The
In Budapest, bors
rosted
Was
to
the types of merchandise in villages alike. It has been a well be on the Assumption Day of the to. A roligious festival
planned tolebrate tho two which the West-and €5 established tradition in Hungary Virgin, August 16th. Processions
hundredth anniversary
of the of Pillenzentkereszt. in its broadcast,
Sunday pro
were organised. Against these
Cardinal was expected
to vehement INFO divino services and far wilder and more
attend, The Home Secretary firat in the numerical pro terror was applied by the
| banned to ment than the pressure vern- | ANPOR
the festival; then the socluded moment confined to the sup- After the "beration" the
srnment did not ceaso This
A procession planned for Corpus valley was surrounded by soldiers port of the economic position practice; on the contrary, religious Christi Day was banned; the male and police agents, and the Cam- of the Korean Republic. broadcasts were extended, and pilgrimage to the image of the munat village eldera visited every Those who made their But it should not be for even on weekdays are included Budapest was forbidden: some way by pisser
20-called re- Holy Virgin in the Rakocal ut in village.
paths alone gotten that President Tru- Uglous half-hours were man drew attention in his in the programmes. This enabled who gathered and prayed there in wards Pillaszentkereszt were ar-
arrested.
nd interned; and as many of the villages were populated by inaugural address to the every religion to communicate plic of the ban
Szekesfe
families German-speaking
they importance of the part its principles and dogmas accord-
hervar, Pecs the
cars and arriving for the of Germany. Finally, after all were deported to the Soviet zone Western capital ought to Already however, in the of religious festivals were noted by thin
terror, intimidation and play in the development of days during the period
the Armistice one of
Thors of the socrat police. But all this: other areas of Asia.
not be compárod in extent cruelty, the Homa Secretary per the Allied Control Commision cou
could
himself the satanic Jest do and determination with the mes supervising the broadcasts
radio manded that one of tho
in 1948, of granting permission for the taketi, especially- suros
A Innocent relatou pligrimage day before preacher, should be silenced be to make the
the Host appointed date. Of course, in view cause of some expressions which processions, carrying could be misinterpreted. In order and the banners of the Virgin, of what had happened, the Car-
of the dinal did not attend; only All parte
The Baxtergom Rome, June 15. to prevent further trouble of impossible In
country. the archiepiscopal
underlandable Coadjutor-Bishop of klad, One peasant was shot dead this and another seriously wounded vicarage of Budapest exercised that the Government looked with celebrated solamh High Mass.
Church
over all hate and Jealousy upon the But even so, the crowd filled the by striking Italian farm labour | Chur
berimoniali th Cathelle near Bari tonight? This
cult of the Holy Virgin brings to seven the death toll in period the Board of the Radio faith, the ouerings united by the church and the huge space out- an afternoon SRITION -in the month-old dispute between and the Allied Control Comnia and last but not least, by the land-owners and farm workers.
eion like were anlatiod with this courageous and outspoken de ha Juno-13 it was intended to
Holy Virgin of the faith, Cardinal front of the „Beports said that the two men Church ownsorship and only defender
Lourdes, whose chapel ! kavin were attempting to pass a road | manded, that all seringna should | Mindarenty, Chanel
the radio one day
"A low days after the Year of the into the living rock af klount block whs the azizers opened be sent to fre-Beuter,
(later three, says).... buforo. the Holy Mary had been proclaimed B, Gallery, overlooking. Budapest,
ers
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