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The U.S. delegation was headed by Philadelphia's conservative John Cardinal Krol, and Detroit's progressive John Cardinal Dearden. But U.S. bishops are less likely to be active debaters than some of the European leaders, such as Belgium's Leo-Jozef Cardinal Suenens. Just how much Paul...
The august honors, as the world quickly learned, were for JÓzsef Cardinal Mindszenty, now 79. After 15 years of cramped and tightly watched asylum in the U.S. embassy at Budapest, Mindszenty had reluctantly agreed to accept "perhaps the heaviest cross of my life" and leave his native Hungary...
A Clockwise Path. The Mindszenty who came to Rome was hardly the Mindszenty that the Western world had had engraved so long and so indelibly on its memory. Mindszenty now is a tired old man, his firm jaw softened by the flesh of age, his pure white, close-cropped hair...
Even as a young parish priest, Mindszenty was no stranger to jails: he was imprisoned for his outspoken opposition to the short-lived Communist takeover of Bela Kun in 1919. His rise in the Catholic hierarchy was a reward for his unflinching loyalty to the church and the people of...
For a few bloody days in November 1956, as the country rose in revolt against Soviet rule, it seemed as if Budapest might be the Cardinal's own once again. Freedom fighters released him, and his stern face became as familiar an image of those days as the bullet...