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...completely baffled last year when the communized Warsaw government announced the signing of an agreement with Polish Catholic bishops. At first, they expressed doubt that any such document had been signed; two weeks later, they confirmed much of what Warsaw announced. When the Communist government in Czechoslovakia banished Archbishop Beran from Prague this year, again the Vatican did not know what was happening. When Archbishop Grbsz was tried and sentenced by the Communists in Hungary, Rome had to depend for its information on regular press reports...
...reported that obstinate priests who refuse to bow before the hammer & sickle are being "re-educated" in eight government-run camps. Special police are detailed to guard the priests. Discipline is harsh and living conditions bad. The priests are allowed to celebrate Mass, however. Most prominent prisoner: Archbishop Josef Beran of Prague, now confined to the high-walled, isolated Nova Rise monastery, 20 miles from the Austrian border...
Last week, however, the Vatican reacted vigorously to Communist announcements that Prague's Archbishop Josef Beran had been expelled from his archdiocese and that his authority had been taken over by Antonin Stehlik, until recently an obscure parish priest in a Prague suburb. The Sacred Consistorial Congregation, headed by the Pope, issued a declaration restating the laws on excommunication and asserting that "all those who have contributed . . . physically or morally" to the banishment of Beran and to the subversion of the Czech church have incurred excommunication "in accordance with canon law . . . and will remain subjected to excommunication until they...
Rome believed reports that the Communists used Beran's absence from his duties as an excuse for election of a new diocesan administrator. The Reds packed the chapter with docile priests and Stehlik was elected capitular Vicar of Prague. Presiding at the election was Bishop Antonin Eltschkner, auxiliary to Beran. A year ago, Eltschkner was the first bishop to swear loyalty to the Prague regime. Although the Vatican did not forbid such oaths, the fact was that Eltschkner gave the Communists a tremendous boost...
...jailed were 40 more Roman Catholic priests (estimated total of nuns and priests already jailed: 300); they had opposed two bills, steamrollered through Parliament, which made all clergymen employees of the state (at the same time doubling their salaries), and appointed a cabinet minister to "supervise" religion. Archbishop Josef Beran, interned in his palace since June, was quoted by Western diplomats in Prague as saying that the new laws were "treason to the Christian faith." Beran was grieved that some priests had given public support to the bills, had been "bought for Judas coin...