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Late in 1952, when the Vatican made a cardinal of Archbishop Aloysius Stepinac -a man long persecuted by the Tito regime and still confined to his native village-Tito broke relations with the Holy See and sent the papal charge d'affaires packing. Last week the Marshal invited seven high Yugoslav prelates to a conference at his villa. The churchmen came, smiled, registered for the nth time some old complaints, but agreed to join a church-government commission to study religious problems. Tito's propaganda organs claimed that the conference showed the government's "tolerance" of religion...
...cardinals-Yugoslavia's Archbishop Aloysius Stepinac and Poland's Stefan Wyszynski-stayed at home rather than run the risk of being refused readmittance to their countries. By long custom, the Spanish nominees and the papal nuncios to France, Spain, Portugal and Italy would receive their insignia of office from local heads of state...
Next day Tito's Foreign Office summoned the Vatican charge d'affaires in Belgrade and formally broke off diplomatic relations with the papacy. Tito was mad at the Vatican for conferring the Cardinal's red hat on his arch enemy, Archbishop Aloysius Stepinac, who served five years in a Tito jail and is now restricted to his home village...
...cardinals are from Communist countries-Poland's Archbishop Stefan Wyszynski (pronounced Vishinsky) and Yugoslavia's Archbishop Aloysius Stepinac. Archbishop Wyszynski, Primate of Poland, has avoided an open break with the Communists, has kept some freedom in ministering to Poland's 20 million Catholics. Stepinac. an uncompromising enemy of the Tito government, was released in 1951 after five years in jail (TIME, Dec. 17, 1951). He is now confined to his native village of Krasic. Tito has refused to let him return to his archbishopric of Zagreb, and he has refused to leave Yugoslavia. He will probably...
...either dead or in Siberia. The Lithuanian bishop of Kaisedorys and the Estonian apostolic administrator have been sent to Siberia. One Hungarian bishop, the Vatican announced, "has probably died" in a concentration camp. In Yugoslavia, Titoist but still Communist, one bishop is in jail, two (including Archbishop Aloysius Stepinac) are under house arrest...