Word: esztergom
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...mother. So she surprised her mom Carol Hornbuckle with a trip to Budapest as a 70th-birthday present. Diane found them a pretty four-star hotel, the K+K Opera in Budapest, introduced her mother to her Hungarian friends and took her to places of historic interest like Esztergom Cathedral on the Danube and the Museum of Ethnography. At the museum, Carol spent hours entranced by the 19th century embroidered clothes and hand-painted furniture like her grandparents'. The trip not only strengthened their bonds to the past but also to each other...
...brief period under house arrest, he lived for 15 years in the U.S. legation in Budapest, where he had taken refuge during the 1956 Hungarian Revolution. During all that time and while he was exiled in Vienna after 1971 Mindszenty clung prodly to his titles of Archibishop of Esztergom, an ancient see that includes Budapest, and Primate (first bishop) of the Hungarian hierarchy. Last week Pope Paul did what the Communists could not and removed the stubborn, 81 -year-old hero from office...
...cardinal's firing was accomplished obliquely. The Pope simply announced that the see of Esztergom was vacant and sent a conciliatory letter to Mindszenty, acknowledging "the crown of thorns that has been placed on your head." The Pope declared that "the memory, both vivid and painful, is deeply etched in our mind, of when you underwent a trial and conviction . . . that drew the attention of the whole world...
...forced retirement was clearly seen as a way of speeding up the policy in Hungary, where the church has won concessions with painful slowness. Simultaneously with the Mindszenty announcement, the Vatican made public four new episcopal appointments in Hungary, including a resident bishop as the new "apostolic administrator" in Esztergom, who will perform the archbishop's duties until a new one is appointed. Even so, that leaves seven of Hungary's eleven dioceses without full-fledged bishops. In Vienna, Mindszenty obviously thought it a bad bargain. Said he: "Hungary and Hungary's Catholic church are not free...
Price to Pay. The leftward step seemed to be the naming of Father Gyorgy Zemplen, 63, as auxiliary bishop to the apostolic administrator of Eszter-gom. Esztergom, which includes part of Budapest, is the old metropolitan see of Jozsef Cardinal Mindszenty, now largely ignored in his self-imposed exile at the U.S. embassy - and Zemplen is known to have friendly relations with the Kadar government...