Word: catholicized
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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It looked as if the Roman Catholic Church in Czechoslovakia had finally given way to relentless Communist pressure. "Priests and Catholic laymen," said a government spokesman last week, "are now obligated to faithful and effective collaboration ... in the building of socialism."
The Czech puppet Parliament last month passed a church law, by the usual unanimous show of hands, which made all clergymen employees of the state, and set up President Klement Gottwald's Communist son-in-law, Alexej Cepicka, as cabinet minister in charge of religion. The Catholic Church had...
The Catholic Church in Czechoslovakia was faced with a painful choice between two evils: to continue in full defiance and risk wholesale persecution, or try to salvage as much as it could of its organization by coming to some sort of terms with the state and playing for time. Hungary...
Catholic Univ. 14, Washington Univ. 14
Spunky Little Man. Once a rather dowdy (though brilliant) history professor, Georges Bidault suddenly blossomed out after liberation as a dapper diplomat and statesman. Britain's Ernest Bevin had once patronizingly called him "this dear little man," but Bidault had been almost the only one in Charles de Gaulle...