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Still, the month's only dramatic action came not from much-publicized liberal quarters, but from the church's Ukrainian hierarchy. Exiled Josyf Cardinal Slipyi took the synod floor to break an eight-year silence over the persecution of the 4,500,000 Roman Catholic Ukrainians, who have...
Too often these past few years, the voices have not been heard from the middle-of-the-road majority of the hierarchy, either in the U.S. or abroad. They have come from loyal independents like Brazil's Dom Helder Câmara, battling for his nation's poor...
Sir: Cardinal Mindszenty will ever remain a symbol of truth and freedom. But those who sacrifice inalienable principles must endure subtle embarrassment-or impute it with empathy.
Sir: Your writer uses a form of the word embarrass no fewer than four times in describing Cardinal Mindszenty [Oct. 11]. Perhaps the cardinal has become a diplomatic anachronism. But if we can smugly call a man who endured 23 years of confinement for his convictions an "embarrassment," perhaps we...
Sir: Cardinal Mindszenty's exile was certainly not "a wasteful expense of spirit." He served as a source of strength all over the world. The writer of your article must be a lily-livered, milk-toast egghead who would have cracked after the first day at the hands of...