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THE CHINA MAIL, WEDNESDAY, JUNE 8, 1949.

PART II: THE CONSCIENCE OF HIS PEOPLE

THE

doen

re

MINDSZENTY STORY

The

Stalin Constitution

And Religious Freedom

Elasticity

BY THE VERY REV. DR. NICHOLAS BOER

of

of

their

the

as by

by

Good Morning

.Never in the history of refugeo governanents will so many legisla tors have gone into exile and left BO few.

to

Acheson asked Vyshinsky dinner. Talk of the ilon and the Iamb lyin' there together

"This tiny but wonderful in- veation, which rings like a full- size alarm clock, has now been named "The Cricketer, after the small insect, which makes a lot of noise."

Resemblance to any local player is purely coincidental.

So Nimbus has won the Derby. One dark cloud that had a silver linlag

*

Four steps

to

jn

greatness Filipine politics: Rat, Democrat, Bureaucrat, Plutocrat......

•

week.

*

Primitivo Lovino is a new de-

conference. But there's a lot of

which made See was one-sidedly dissolved; it loyalty to the State, espionago and the old Adam in him when it gets

realisation of

1.5

Significant

The story of the Churches In

united in the holy

pellod-to-introduce the priest-elect the human will when it is her bath Stepinne Archbishop

of is its priest to the Authorities. duty to proclaim God's law with a Agram, and Cardinal Mindszenty Archbishop priests loud voice. They expect a Church are cases in point. No religious bodies or may perform religious functions which breaks away from that firm Stepinac had been fighting for the without State permission, and oven foundation on which it has been liberty of the Church in the West

They expect a bishops must be introduced to the built by Christ,

ern European sense, yot

"The Australian Wheat board secular power by the congregation. Church which does not take up an charge on which he was tried was

Ho was will deliver 2,000,000 bushels of THE Stalin Constitution does]

Through compulsory registration attitude of opposition against the strictly a political one. not mean the freedom of of priests the State exercises con- suppression conscience and accused of collaborating with Ante what to Now Zealand between religion and of the mind in the plete control over rellelous bodies; which does not defend the funda- Favelloh's Quisling Government; June and December."

All right, we up.

Alve sense of European and Ameri- the clergy, bishops and, above all, mental rights and the true liberty in fact, of forcing the conversion

of the people. They expect

of the people of Bosnia-Herze- can legislations-which mean the church hierarchy,

Church which remains in infamous govina and Croatia to Roman Friend of ours who has waited the free and public exercise of

servitude within

of making the walls of its Catholicism,

spectacles pro-weeks for his new religion-but in the Proleta-

It cannot be argued that the building and forgets the Godly paganda for Pavellch in the semi-called on the optician yesterday rian-Bolshevik sense, namely: Communist parties in every state

order of Christ: 'Go ye therefore, official newspaper of the diocese of to protest, the freedom of the individual are trying to realise article 124 as and teach all nations, (Matthew, Agram, and of hiding the archives "I shall go blind before these

their to the main achievement

28, 19.)**

of the Ustacha Government In the glasses (arrive," he said. to practise religion or not

Freedom in the policy against the Church. It is, Apart from the reatisation of

archlep scopal palace of Agram. "If you do," replied the opti- practise it.

typical of the

articles 124 of the Staliniat Con-

At the Irial of

Archbishop cian, "we will provide you with Soviet means freedom from all however, very

atitution, the methods and means Stepinne the Communists did not a white stick." dogmatic and moral ties; con- elasticity of Soviet polley that in

of propagandn employed by the yet make use of those "latest sequently the freedom of the the USSR, as well as in the

various satellite and non-satellite Communist Governmentn and technical and scientifle discoverien

There have been Sabbath clots conscience will be the greater states. the Communists have Parties are everywhere basically (the quotation is from the Popo) in Jerusalem caused by Jews as the authority of the Church vaded and accommodated their the same. In order to realise their which were a feature of Cardinal who would not let cars circulate diminishes,

methods by which they hope to aims, they regard

Mindszenty's trial, and therefore on the Jewish religious days. This kind of religious free-achleve this aim according to primary task to separate and world public opinion could aco When the police intervened they dom means no more than freedom time, place and possibilities. In

alienate the people from the clergy easily and clearly from the Press realised that the day of rest had for religious cult and prayer, and those

and European

American in general and from the clerical reports of Stepinac's trial itself become a day of arrest, renuse religious bodies are not states where the Communist Party hierarchy in melleular. These and from the official version that the

While we may not have a home afterwards legal persons, the Churches can is not in power, the line of pre-principles are publicised by the publ

trial

an Was

elaborate of our own we'll get a place in not farm charitable institutions or paganda is that in the Soviet Instractions issued by the Central whole tri

avold the Sun yet. religious organisations for cul- Union there is complete religious Committee of the Soviet Trades smoke-screen in order to

Arch- Unions (7d9, No. 125) and by making a martyr of the tural, artistic, literary, etc., pur- liberty and that the relations pases, nor can they teach religion, the Church and State are friendly.

th resolutions of the XIII Party

If you find a household recipe bishop.

some Ti follows from article 124 that. An countries like Poland, Czecho

Instead of a signature on Congress (izvretis, June 3, 1942).

Hints Dropped Soviet

legislation

dollar bills in future Rumania,

of your Bulgaria, This not re-slovakia,

gulding principle has been

In Cardinal Mindszenty's case, don't worry. It'll just bo the US. cognise Canonical Law or any

Jugoslavia, Albania and Hungary, accepted by the Patriarchal Con- church hierarchy; or, for that where the Communist Party is forence held between July 7-18, for the past three years hints have first lady Treasurer getting a bit

Government the realisation

absent minded. maller,

In power,

of 1948, which any difference between Orthodoxy, Roman

against the Vatican and party sources, as well Catholicism, article 124 is in the preparatory resolutions passed very offensivo been dropped from

They'd better start making Protestantism or Mohammedanism. stage. In the annexed countrica: and ruled that a distinction must the police, that it will not be The Soviet Law recognises only in Esthonia, Lettland, Lithuania, be made between the Roman allowed to make a martyr of mine detectors standard equip- citizens who, wlih the permission Western White

Western Cathoile hierarchy and its head, him." That is why the Hungarian ment on airliners, now two have is article the Pope, and the masses of the be- Government issued its Yellow of the secular power, are allowed Ukraine and to form "religious organisations" 124 is at the stage of blown up in a

history of and attend focal religious meetings, contingent on the circumstances crimes committed by the Vatican, trial-unique in the

the course For this reason It would be in and the resistance of the popula- It was

reason for this

that criminology-in vain for us to look for words like tion. It cannot be denied that, it the concordate concluded between which the Cardinal himself ad legate to the International Labour "diocese," "bishop," "church law was Cardinal Mindszenty's intran-

Poland, Rumania and the Holy mitted the false charges of dis- in Soviet legislation. These terms sigent attitude

down to monikers, • offences. only-

appear in the interpretation possible that the

this

reason that the

A young couple asked the par- of the law, and always the article should take the slowest Womfore the tions between Po Another Soviet method is to qualified with the adjectives possible course in Hungary. With land and Hungary and the Holy assist and support less devoloped son to marry them immediately cailed"; thus

See were broken off; and that is and less organised religions in after the Sunday morning service. we read so-called in the Soviet Union, article 124 Set bishops," "no-called Church ad- has been in force for the last ten why there is a permanent anti- order to weaken the stronger and When the time came, the minis- ministration,” etc. This naturally years; this, however, does not vatican propaganda in Poland, better-organised ones. In Hungary tor, rose to say: "Will those who shows the complete supremacy of mean a completed process. During Rumania and Czechoslovakia am one of the first activities of the wish to be the State over the Church, which the first period of Soviet history ed at making the people believe new Government was to wipe est bonds of matrimony please come

B forward?" la achieved by legal obligation on (1918-1921) religious propaganda

There was a considerable stir the part of the Church to ask for was permitted side by side with that, whereas the Vatican had been the difference between the

on Germany's side during the called "accepted" and "tolerated" permission. Let us take for our anti-religious propaganda. During Second World War, it is today religions and to bolster up the less as 14 women and one man ap-

(The

proached the altar. a parish of one thousand the next period, beginning with; exampla

God has serving the reactionary, imper- prominent religious sects. souls. The church building is the 1930, the worship of

is anil lalistic, anti-democratic policy of Evangelical Church in historie unhindered,

"accepted Hungary had been an property of the State. In order been

Church", the Baptists a Teta- that religious services may be held religious propaganda, but in the American capitalism. in the church an application has last and final period, about which

lerated" one). to be sent in by at least twenty Lenin and his colleagues had

In this connection, the war in Tamania, which ao far had not persons-first and foremost by argued already between 1918-1923, workora, because other persons only anti-religious propaganda which they tried to feature Car been ventilated in the Press of would not get the permission to will be allowed, and consequently dinal Mindszenty as the enemy of Western Europe, is very typleni the local authority: then when the the disappearance of religion democracy is extremely significant. of this polley of playing off one permission is granted a contract would be followed by the abolition The task was dimeult as there had religion against the other. I'AL

few men in many centuries must be entered into in order that of article 124.

What In the so-called countries of

the Rumanian the church building may be used for worship. The conditions

United Church suffered a mortal authorities made Roman Catholle ports of Peoples Democracy, which simply quite so popular in Hungary. The tia della Santa Sede nel 1948 means the satellite states of the youth movements, teachers blow through the tyranny of the this contract are very

and f Soviet Union, the fight for the schoolmasters, parish councils and Communist Government

Russian Orthodox Church. realisation of article 124 started the employees of factories, goy- the with the slogan "separation of ernment offices and business firme After reducing the number of the

Cardioceses Church and State," which, as a sign protests against the

from five to two and "anti-democratic" and eliminating line of propaganda, had success-

four bishop, the Government prevented the Greek cign possession at least geo- fully misled even Western Euro "anti-Roman Catholle" stutude.

Communists have long Catholic Church from countries the separation of the

old

They It always takes Commun- graphically part of China, pean public opinion. in the latter

principle of religious activities. recognised the

por ists a long time to react to and which they might well figious freedom is part of public divide and rule," and accordingly socute the Greek Catholic clergy any given situation, especial- be expected to covet. Now, Church and State, in which re-

principles of "class struggle" into Orthodox Church. Those who ly in the way of comment, in their first official pro- freedom, and the Church and its they are trying to introduce the in order to force them to Join the

functionaries are accepted

the ranks of the Church itself. have enough courage to resist but because their fanatical nouncement, they bitterly lezal persons, assures in our time The history of

the Orthodox are either imprisoned or forced 1018 and 1943 to ice. The congregation minds are dulled by dogma accuse the Colony's govern the best situation, in practice it

algn

declarations and they require a notice- ment of disrupting relations not in theory, for the Church. Church between

their allegiance to the able period to frame suitable with the "people's demo- According to the teaching of the has shown many convincing proofs compelled to

Church, the ideal situation would of this principle. They have tried giving

off the blahope against the Orthodox Church, under threats naturally

union between replies for foreign consump- cracles."

the of imprisonment, deportation, lens tion, does not mean they are After the first reading of Church and State: in mane te highest Church authority.

bishops, the of jobs and property. The property a harmless adversary. For the Societies' Ordinance, the orn European countries, however, clergy against the

the separation of Church and well-to-do higher clergy against and the church buildings of the instance, it has taken Mao & "China Mail" expressed State rendure a many-sided and the poorer lower clergy, the pro- Catholic Church are handed over Co. a long time to comment doubts that the measure mutual collaboration possible bogressive clergy against the con- to the Orthodox Church. All the on Hong Kong's ban on poli- would serve any useful pur- tween the two. In countries of servative, and the secular priests six Catholig bishops are st pre- tical organisations affiliated pose, as the Communists did "Peoples Democracy the separa- against the monks. Hungary has sent in prison awaiting trial.

tion of Church and Stato, that is had ample experience of this pro

(To Be Continued Tomorrata) to parties established outside not possess an overt organi- to say, the confiscation of Church paganda activity. The Communists the Colony, but now, the sallon in the Colony, and property, the nationalisation of have tried with all their might publicists are voluble.

would just continue under- Church schools, the banning of the and cunning to divide the unity of Influence of the Church on youth the bishops and to creato tactical The first approved remarks ground activity as before. and the prevention of the pro- differenes and disagreements aris were voiced in Hong Kong We are not now criticisingpagation of faith through books, ing out of the characters and in- and schools, only dividual personalities of various itself, by the vernacular Wen the authorities for bringing precedes the separation of Church bishops. At the time of the nation Wei Pao last week, when it in this bill, except that it is and State. And the means of the alisation of the Church schools moderate attack typical of the current atti- struggle against Godless they tried to play off the religious (after weeks of silence) on tude. The Red broadcast epirit In the satellite states are orders and Roman Catholle par-

ants against the bishops who the Societies' Ordinance. revived, in its own twisted the same.

Pope's Speech

refused permission for monks Then, yesterday, came away, the debacle of British

Pope Pius XII, in his speech teach in Church schools. They similar protest by Chinese warships being involved in

delivered on February 20, 1940, tried through subsidies to create notables in Peiping, obvious the Yangtse fighting, and we

fram, the loggia of St. Peter to a "progressive" Catholla fraction ly agreed to by the Reds. can only repeat that the three hundred thousand people and nowspaper. It was the joint Today you can read the Naval directors of that en- encircled by Bernini's magnificent strength, of mind and the high development terprise were seriously at colonade, and dealing with the sense of duty in the ranks of the trial of Cardinal Mindszenty, ro clergy that the Government failed here by the official Commun- error, and lost us more face vealed the enormous tension bo- to achieve its purpose by these ist radio. It accuses the and goodwill in a few hours tween Rome and Moscow by the means.

One of the principles of Com Hong Kong authorities of than other blunderers have fact that the Pope was not merely

censuring crime unique in a munist governments in liquidating following an anti-Chinese managed in years.

mockery of human liberty and religions is to be careful not to

mako

marlyra policy constituting "a chal-

of those they Yesterday

discussed democracy. we

Quoting Rumanian,) lenge to the Chinese people the probable consequences Jugoslay and Hungarian examples, victimies. They remember Ter BOTAN christianorum-lie who are on the road to vic of failing to start the local he disclosed the uniform method tullian's maxim, Sanguis marty

adopted in the totalitarian and rum tory." This, it added, "will population along the road of anthroligious states by the enemies blood of the martyrs becomes tie certainly lead to grave con- self-government. That, how- of God. The pregnant and un-seed of Christianity! It was the sequences."

ever, is only one of the seri- equival expressions used by the history of the open warfare The broadcast may be dis ous weaknesses of our ad- greatest ecclesiastical authority of against the Church in Jurala by- 'he world aro about the best een 1017-23 which made the

of. Its members Misracterisations missed by our rulers as just ministration.

Cardinal Communists remember this. They an ordinary example of Mos- may be successful in creat- Mindazanty is a well-known realised that open persecution hel cow-inspired propaganda. It ing conditions whereby a fat said the Pope, what the only strengthened faith and ad- totalitarian Godless state expects herence to the Church, to any has, however, more signi privileged minority. can from price of ita

of the dreadful story ficance than that. For one achieve immense wealth, but the Church pastrus fucrit- the perpeutton or the Church in thing, the Communists have it is doing little to ensure tion. I expects the Church to be Spain and in Mexico. The Soviet silant when it is her duty to speak in its poliov for the new satellite until now been allent on the the retention of this Colony out expects: the Church to stalost, taken care not to persecute subject of Hong Kong, a for by Britain."

loosen God's law- and mould it to, the Church as mich. The trials of

Perhaps the experts in London and Hong Kong are right, but we are still uncon- vinced, and consider that in- dications during the past few days tend to reinforce the argument that Communism -whether Russian or Chin- ese-is implacably opposed to Western democracy and all it stands for. This should be clearly recognised in this Colony, for while blind panic is to be deplored, a smug and utterly false sense of secur- ity is worse.

made

most

1

serious

rigorous and, because the State does not recognise any church hierarchy, the congregation itself is

cont

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