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...active role in the Hungarian church. The Vatican is reluctant to negotiate any settlement over Mindszenty's head, would like to find a way for the heroic old cardinal to leave the country with peace and honor. Thus negotiations in Hungary, in the words of Monsignor Agostino Casaroli, the Vatican diplomat who arranged the September agreement, "are at the beginning of the beginning." Meanwhile, churches are wellattended...
...Pope. Last December, the Yugoslav Communist League Congress dropped its ban on religious practice by party members. A number of government officials formally congratulated Archbishop Franjo Seper of Zagreb after the announcement that he would be made a cardinal at Pope Paul's consistory next week. Monsignor Casaroli reported that he was "very satisfied" with the results of a recent ten-day visit to Belgrade, and Vatican officials hint that a formal agreement with Tito may be signed as early as March...
...Pope Paul's Vatican diplomacy, realpolitik blends with visionary hope: a so-so deal is better than none if it gives promise of some day leading to attainment of the church's goals. Last week, at the Foreign Ministry in Budapest, Monsignor Agostino Casaroli of the Vatican's Congregation for Extraordinary Ecclesiastical Affairs signed an agreement with Hungarian Bureaucrat Jozsef Prantner that will provide a small but significant bit of breathing room for the country's 6,000,000 Roman Catholics...
...Casaroli, who recently negotiated the disposition of Roman Catholic property with Moslem Tunisia, took over the job of dealing with Hungary from Vienna's Franziskus Cardinal König. Originally, the Vatican tried to arrange the departure of Josef Cardinal Mindszenty from asylum in the U.S. legation in Budapest, hoping that an agreement about the status of the church in Hun gary would follow. When that approach failed, Casaroli started dickering for some freedom for the church, on the theory that sooner or later a solution to Mindszenty's problem might be found...