Word: czechs
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...Hang Them!" For the most part, Czech congregations listened to the pastoral letter in silence and in sorrow. But at Prague's Church of the Crusaders, Communist hecklers interrupted the reading with shouts of "Hang them and hang their chief...
...words he chose to leave unsaid at the monastery, the archbishop had put into a pastoral letter, to be read from Catholic pulpits throughout the country. In it, he summarized the successive steps the Czech Communist government has taken to gain control of the church and its schools, rejected the charges leveled at the church hierarchy, pointed out that "the issue does not concern a settlement between church and state ... It is an issue of ... replacing Christianity by Marxism, which assumes for the state the rights in matters of conscience, faith and morals -something no Christian can accept...
...drive to break the Roman Catholic Church, the Czech Communist government last week recruited 118 pliable Catholics, including two monsignors and a sprinkling of priests, to form an "anticapitalist" Catholic Action Organization. At the same time, Dr. Antonin Mandl, secretary of the Vatican-recognized Catholic Action, was arrested and sent to join the 100-odd priests in Czech prisons. Education Minister Vaclav Kopecky announced that henceforth all Catholic seminaries will be provided with political instructors. They will teach compulsory courses in "social progress," which seminarians must pass to continue their studies...
...Czech government says it is merely trying to stop church interference in politics. Archbishop Beran last week ordered Catholics to stay out of the new Catholic Action. Archbishop Beran said: "If some of you should be invited to join it, be aware that it is a schismatic movement...
Heads Against the Wall? Washington believed that the story in U.N. World was based on a plant, probably by the Polish or Czech delegation at U.N. Its purpose: to help persuade U.S. opinion that the Atlantic pact was unnecessary. The Atlantic pact is still a great concern of Russian propagandists; a recent Krokodil cartoon showed Uncle Sam launching human torpedoes-Winston Churchill and John Foster Dulles-from a submarine labeled Atlantic Pact...