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PART II: THE CONSCIENCE OF HIS PEOPLE

THE MINDSZENTY STORY

Non-Compulsory Religious Education In Schools

BY THE VERY REV. DR. NICHOLAS BOER

that on the fan and

We dealt briefly in this column yesterday with the visit of Britain's Minister of Defence, Mr. A. V. Alexan-/ personal act. It achieved no the Hungarian heavy industry and that the Church would abdicate its arch

der, to Hong Kong, and we do not wish to elaborate the

nauscam. subject ad

His presence, however, could not be ignored, and now that he is flying back to the United Kingdom via Singapore and Colombo, one cannot help wondering how satisfled he is about his visit here.

that he

If

and demanded

WES

santry,

large

Loyalty To Faith

Mr. Alexander went Viszo of platitudes,

out in a

We understand on good-au- thority that the offelency export's report on civil service Improve- ment has not resulted in several

coro suleides,

at first

moo'ed.

A was

Apparently they were

had not read holiday and

papor.

all on tho

What with Shanghai's ban on silvor, and Hong Kong's ban on gold (as arranged with the de- functionalists), wo are liable to run into an uncomfortabla sort of imotsilism around these parts-

Allen doctors are admitted to

Austraila as labourers. They can go in and take their pick.

Scientists say they can make a from troos in

This type of wood alcohol should

·

•

"I want

write mo a you to

Alm producer, the story," said the

that begins with an earthquake

climax."

on

.

A former Greek premier has been refused an exit vise for Paris. It was all done quite de- mocratically and with the great- est discretion, of course

According to a current economic report, people haven't got the Worse, they haven't got any other money to take its place.

The number of war memoirs in

Was Bhut "where there is such | Nagy, who already folt the trap Walter dzynch, Blahop of Clontext spirit and enthusiasm flourishing closing around him, spoke at the After having been made a canon In the wake of chastisement womeoting of the Hungarian Small- and later an assistant blahop of have to give thanks in our prayers holders' Party on the necessity of Gyor, Lynch died, and the picture for the chastisement."

clarifying the relations of the became the property of the cathed So cvidunt was the success of Churches to democracy. This clari- ral, and veneration for it had long the Catholic schools

again

was meant to be sprend beyonit the confines of the

it WIK

On expected diocese. of Csepel,

On St. Patrick's Day,

1607, in the most drinkable whisky result, but it showed clearly the very citadel of

of Communism, hereditary

and Inalienable rights. difficult period in Irish history, as four hours, that the new Government's the workers sent a deputation to Promfor Nagy said that Porila- If the Holy Virgin had wished to policy in the matter of free- the Benedictine Order to ask them ment must settle the question of express her sympathy with the be scorchou. dom of religion was restricted to open a church and a school. uniform text-books, of optional Irish, the picture shed blood and to the freedom of religious Inspired by their example, their

instruction and the initial tears for three hours. There are cult alone. The implications womenfolk, in turn, sent a dopula- problems, dificulties and aims of several contemporary records of

tale miraculous of school.

event, of this are the true spirit of tion to Sopron to beg the sisters the new type: article 124 of the Stalin Con- of the convent there to organise The significance of Promler 250th anniversary of the Shodding

school for a eccondary

in girls in Negy's speech was no less clear of the Tears, the Homan Catholics and works up to a really startling stitution, namely, that religious

Accom- ne suitable Csepel, and, treedom is merely part of the modation could not be provided for

large-scale of Hungary made a to the general public than it was to Cardinal Mindszenty. It was pilgrimage to the old Baroque right of association, not a

the nuns,

very large number of not surprising that the country city of Western Hungary. public right and not a basic the workers familles undertook to

protest swept by a wave of Having talked with a num-

right of freedom.

contribute 10 forinta monthly to

and anger, Within one week the first Press This

Catholica campaign build a convent for them. ber of people who met the

Actio

received ton Roman Catholicism In it was even more significant thousand protesting telegrams; wo Minister, and having endea- against

Some 60,000 pilgrime came by a defeat for the that at the

the meetings of discuss matters Hungary was

do not, however, know how many train, in cars and lorries, voured to

Church only so far ал it con- Parents' Associations the parents with him ourselves, we can

cerned the Roman Catholle asso- had made the cause of Church auch tolegrams reached the gur bleveles and on foot to the leg money they had a year ago.

ernment. Among those who pro- bedecked town of Gyor, and only come to the conclusion clations. On the question of the schools an article of their faith tested against Government

demonstration taken most schools, the Church bas

Roman Catholic seemed that their VIE still and had, in their resolutions, as

to were not only

expressed the Hungarian Cardinal Mindszenty, strongly to heart the Scrip anticipating a

victorious.

As in their often-repeated

People's Protestants

to their faith. In cold. loyalty attack, doputations to the Premier and to Mutual understanding however, windy, rainy weather the host of the latest book-itats indicate that renewed turul admonition that the issued an instruction in January the Minister for Education, Prae between Catholics and Protestants the left hand know

1940

for the formation of associa- tested against the attacks on the was lacking, as so often in Hun-pilgrims heard the Cardinal's sar- the generals are still ready to sell

their lives as dearly as possible. mon about the Weeping Madonna. of Catholle parents in con-Church schools right hand is doing.

the pea- He made a deep and unforgettable with Ruman Catholic that

Should Carian history, whereas the Government

the workers

and the senior government officials nection

words that A scholar claims to have dia- defence chiefs know schools. This was to be entirely on afford the schools protection from

bourgeoisie and

had found their com- impression with his a voluntary basis and part of the their continuance. more about the British gov-Actia Catholica. It was

mon idontity in the defence of seemed an echo of Hungarian covered, from a close study of the

Prayera of the 12th century. plays, that Shakespeare at the

eir convictions.

"Weep.

broker. Our Lady," he said, “weep ernment's attitude to Hong same time the transplantation of

March 26, 1947, a delegation On andred and fifty parents country. Because in our time they

with

He certainly supplied plenty of Lis comfort and save our Kong since Mr. Alexander

iden which had been a brilliant

they stock quotations. the Weal. There The Cardinal and the bishops arrived, then they have been great succoss

not been exclusively inld down the guiding principles the largest factory with rob our youth of God singularly perspicacious and Catholic. It first been in- for the resistance of the Catholic This are deserving of the highest stituted in France, where it grew parents and their right to main repre

This delegation the Church which teaches the Old "It is recognised that taxpayers honours in their profession.ver

right of Baptism, to pay for the new airport." denominations and pro-

Bald that, by the Church is on the side of Now look: we may be suckers, very fast and is now represented fain Church schools as well as represented all political parties, and New Testaments." Later he muts dige deep into their pockets Endeavouring to find even

highest educational council the freedom of religious instruc-in First, the spokesman children and will never cease to but you don't have to underline the thinnest bedrock under- by three members. In England it on in a a joint circuler.

the Roman Catholle parents told neath the ministerial vague-one and School Connell and in uary 1947 there was a temporary

under

the name DX Between August 1946 and Jan-

bim

that, in order to rehabilitate proclaim that the Godless parent deprive ness, one could only sense an tho

States a Parents- Jull in the fight against the Church,e country, they had put up with or the parent acting under com

This assa- during which appeasement policy of less Teacher Association,

hunger and cold, but they could not pulsion has no right to the Government,

in-hia child of the possibility of to belloving subtlety than Chamberlain's clation, which was transplanted to

that there was still a accept the loss of

The knowing God, of loving Him, struction for their childre

being faved and entering behind Mr. Alexander's re- Hungary by Cardinal Mindszenty, possibility for agreement, teled to spokesman of the Lutheran Church armed with religion

and moral demo win the the essentially

the sympathy of the expresses

him of they had come to peated assertions of accept- ance of any dominating aucratic spirit of the Church which Catholic Church. The now battle

"that there is no morality and recognises

God, Church and culture without God, parents In education. thority in China, while his the gives the natural rights of against Catholic schools began in their own accord, and painted out strength. "Note well," be gald,

The February,

2047. It look

A large number of mercy. Government People's voice is stronger than the calls equally

assur-Arst campaign against the

Indirect form. The

voice Darlles. They

experiments have

that proved worldly morals and a carnival of from the Roman Catholic parents

compulsory teaching of divinity!

religious

to adherence to Catholic schools; on in the schools. This plan

of non-compulsory

school and education only abandoned. The the contrary, it inspired them to dangerous for the Roman Catholic spokesman of

ans lead youth into the path of of the Presbyterians solidarity

schools because the Introduction with them. This

The hand that closes the door to in and foremost which needed - the Scriptures at the

same time manifested erely by the

fuct

would merely

divinity

have made it manif that in the dallowing year the possible for

totalitariangious education in order to pro- number of applications for enrol Marxist Government to put

duce a generation of high moral opens the door of the reformatory in- ment in Catholic schools

in principles for the country. This and the prison. Te promise free- WAS end

religious

teaching in was the will and desire of ninety dom of religion and then to

Godless state is stitutionalise a Those three to four times the capacity of

the height of hypocrisy. We are not organising revolution, for: minister respond that Hong the schools, but also by the fact ma apply pressure to nine per cent. of the people of

such is not our policy, bu

amorphous

bad

is known

United

had

Guiding Principles

Roman

their

of tw

strict of

fessions.

the

aid

•

walled. on

in matters of faith the

ded

ances of defending British Catholic schools had not frip had claborated a scheme to stop that the plan for the festes de

or

open

Was

was a

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of

HWhat's

your now maid ko?" "She's a smasher."

•

life

"Life of Charles Finney, 70- 32 pages, rivalint, by himself. $1.50 each."

Markedly materialist alant, though.

4

tenda

and couragiarity was not of non-compulsory education in said that it was democracy first Rangsters, convicts and aviculos.

be defended against à large- scale attack,

;

Cardinal

the

who

an

later

10 Hungary.

the Briton, but it will take places, the e. Visited, among other workers whether they take part Communist Party, to say:

Te

fact, and by that time those of the most beauteously workers and must lose their

of us who live here may have

c.

по

The

deep

. but we are

impression that when the "Are you opposte mqueation:

had our lives thrown into boot repaired by those parents to optional education in moatings between represon Privata crowd repenied after the bishop

the

and

The

the

taches and "haw-haw" ac- trade, had done all the plumbing new text-bookszenty's

territory is unfortunately re- miniscent to the local popu- lation of the Nationalists' re- iterated claims of fighting to the last man, and Chiang's promise to recapture Shang hai within four months.

would To nobody

the

that Roman Catholic parents has parents through Lear, threat of was indefensible Kong

taken #TI active part in the loss of employment, Dr loss

Muss Protest

take refuge under- that it is regarded as ex-rehabilitation of

not going to those schools of liberty, and to force them

ground in the catacombs, like the pendable, but with the same which had been damaged during to demand the nationalisation of

The deputation proceeded to early Christians. Together with reticence he would not in the war.

Church schools, had ample means to dissuade preligious

hand the Premier memorandum

who belleye, We ATO from

our people dicate how the Colony might

Beautiful Sight their children

instruc- containing the signatures of ten ready to face tho storm which has i

thousand parents, protesting boca

created. tion. At the moment of writing

and peech made much Mindszenty, after (March 1949)

We are informed against non-compulsory religious Knowing something of the making a tour of the cultural and that, just as in Hitlorist Germany which assumed the proportions of Bishop of Gyor asked the meeting

education. This public expression, spirit of the people at home, educational centres of the country, and Stalinist Russia, the Govern- wh

prompted Guza said at one of the meetings of ment of Hungary is busy

a plebiscite, finding we realise that this kind of the Parents' Association at Pecs out from public functionaries and Losonczy, the mouthpiece of the to every attempt to violate vacillation is not typical of that the had

morals of our

our people, to destroy its Catholic of the Sacred in

in religious

and attend a are sure that an important section

faith

to take away its considerable persuasion

that what church; because to Heart in Budapest, and

if do they

schools and to forbid religious they of Hungarian parents will insist

for their instruction?" the crowd of. fifty there had been one

religious education or convince our enemies of this he had seen

as reliable sights of party and must

cannot be regarded

members

people gave the reply suitable children if this bill is passed." and

thousand The battle around non-compul-that sounded like an

angry thun Tho damaged during

sory religious instruction the war had Simultaneously with the

was derclap: "We are." And when the fought in three atonas:

oath 450 help us God" their chaos.

who were Industrial workers in Government wanted to Intro

the Government of

of the

the right hands moved in unison to- one time the Briton was general and builders in particular duce uniform school books through religious bodies, in Parliament wards their chests.

entirely voluntarily. When the

schools, which would have

all platforms of regarded by foreign peoples

work was

completed, the charting out the who had not visited the and cleaning was done by the

meant that Church schools would and, finally, on whereas the

pupils would have Church and the Government, country as typified by our mothers, many of whom belonged have survived merely in thenry, oblic life. At the meeting between (To be continued on tomorrow)

of Communist Bishop Laszio Banas Veszprem monocled, frock-coated diplo to the highest social circles. One been submitted to

Important part. plumber by mats, with drooping mous father, who was a

through their, played an inspired education

bielkop had been very popular as parish pricat in Debrecen. In 1045, work in the building. The Cardinal

Cardinal

non-through negotiation with the any These may have was then shown the school kitchen, against the introduction of non-

the temporary masked the real Englishman, where the poorer children were compulsory religious education in cupying power, Scotsman, etc., but at least daily fed. His immediate reaction Hungary's schools may not meet government and the leaders of the they maintained our prestige.

with the sympathy it deserves in new political life, he ensured the

ucation as a proroqu Nowadays, with the coming Commonwealth disintegrate Western Europe, because in the continuance of compulsory I

democratic Western

to a poncordat with of age of the working-man because of lack of under truly

pean countrice the natural

the During his discussions with the .. If under the tion, we have ̋a

Marxist Government, Bishop Fanas wa different the problems of those of us state,

dictatorship of the Hungarion had gained in Transylvania

abio to

profit by the experiences type of itinerant representa- who live here.

Government the Catholle Church ho tive, risen through trade These people, however, are

the Rumanian rule in the to this speciously daring

of Hungarians and interesta union activities from mining not the true Britain, and it democratie domand compliance Roman Catholics. The Communists

would Roman, would be well for the war on the part of the Chuthin edge always pesferred him as a towns and ironworkers' com-

In of ly wrong impression of Eri-Kong to realise this..

have Church to the intransigent Car- the Marxist spirit would

dinal Mindszenty. At these meet tain when they go abroad. 1939 Hitler thought us de

and penetrated Hungarian schools

however, the great truth Because of their background cadent, and found that his would have made the realisation ings, ho

that this! transpired they are supersensitive to information had been based of Christian principles, of Western spokesman of the Church could

traditions and of Similarly to-democratic criticism, ard are only really on a fallacy,

the at home in trade union day, because

United national consciousness Impossible, not have realised his aim if the spirit represented by, Cardinal Mindszenty had not permeated the whole of.

Roman Hungary's The foust in connection with if she wanted to, that is no which in May 1947 culminated in the picture of the Virgin preserved the fight abroad of Ferencs Nagy, at the Cathedral of Gyor were a reason for our enemies to

Premier offered great and unforgettable suppose her people cannot the

the balance of the double relation to Tealand by "capitalist adventurers, know is right. Despite Mr. Coalition dovernment, which had land of Gainte, depicts the Virgin was brought to--Gyor in eir lack of knowledge of Alexander those bosom, com- been extremely shund after laping with over the infant

Corsing Barillolders Party alien pooples, and their narrades Stalin and Mao would purge fin ranke, to take al. *125| 1636--chiring, the persecution of row vole-catching viewpoint, do well to ponder before spearhond of khar: Communist sile the Roman Catholic Church in Prünler | Ereland, under Cromwell-by they seem willing to let the they step on the lion's tall. vanos

cents.

and his dreams of nationalisa-standing or appreciation of for parents are not violated Halous

given

вость

used as

munities, who give an equal- lords lustfully eyeing Hong the wedge A year of so later sentative of the Roman

by

two

rallies and conferences, Kingdom has been tempor- The "Conspiracy" where even rebels, can be arily devastated silenced by appeals to class world wars, and can no long- The discovery in January 1017 Catholic community. solidarity.

er dominate the earth, even of the so-called conspiracy"---

Secialist chiefs understand class warfare, but because of their disinclination to deal

the

with an empire built up | #till' stand-up for what they Carson, PegoodVpport- Jience. This picture, which has a

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