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Behind the Iron Curtain, the war on the Roman Catholic Church continued. In a letter to the Czech State Prosecutor, which reached the press last week, Prague's Archbishop Josef Beran detailed what had happened to him since he was "interned" in his palace (TIME, JUNE...
...been permitted to receive visitors or correspondence. An official of the Ministry of Education had occupied the palace consistory "with the assistance of the security police," had confiscated the central treasury of the Prague diocese and other diocesan property. The Communists were using Beran's official stationery and seal for communications in the archbishop's name designed to mislead the faithful...
...deprived of all personal freedom and all rights as the archbishop," wrote Beran, "and all this without any investigation and without any decision of any court...Are all these actions legal...
...spokesman: "It would be humiliating for the Holy See if those governments delayed or refused exit permits, as they did to Mindszenty, even though it is not absolutely necessary for a newly created cardinal to be present at the consistory." In the particular case of Prague's Archbishop Beran, some Catholic authorities fear that the Communist government would consider his elevation a provocative act, and retaliate by attacking...
...churches last Sunday Czech priests read a defiant resolution, proclaiming their loyalty to Archbishop Beran and Pius XII. "We are certain," the resolution declared, "that all conscientious and faithful Catholics agree with us and that they would so testify if they were given the opportunity of free speech...