Word: hungarian
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Pope searingly rejected the Communist charge that, with the complicity of the Holy See, Mindszenty had plotted against the Hungarian government. But he defended Mindszenty's right to oppose his government on certain measures contradicting "divine and human rights." Said the Pope: "Bishops and the faithful themselves are bound by their own conscience to resist unjust laws...
...Budapest's state penitentiary last week, Joseph Cardinal Mindszenty waited for action on his appeal against the court's sentence of life imprisonment. The ruling would be made by the National Council of People's Courts, Hungary's highest tribunal. Hungarian officials said that, whatever Mindszenty's final sentence, he would serve it in one of the country's "foremost penal institutions...
Meanwhile the Hungarian Communists continued what they called their "educational enlightenment" of the public, which tried to hammer home the point that Mindszenty was not only a traitor but a coward. There were some Hungarians who fell for the line. Others, who even refused to listen to the radio broadcasts of the trial, believed in Mindszenty more strongly than ever. Said a Catholic worker: "He is my priest. The government could not have strong enough reason to bring him into court." Said a middle-aged woman: "The Primate's greatest mistake was his wrong timing in speculating...
...court Mindszenty again & again declared he was sorry for what he had done. When he admitted receiving dollar donations from abroad, and letting his subordinates sell them on the black market, he said: "I am sorry. I wish to repay the damage done to the Hungarian state...
...dear friends, [these] are words of an Hungarian Communist,* words that echo the thoughts of men depraved and deranged-men who do not know truth, love, justice or faith . . . These lines . . . are taught to the youth of red-enshackled lands . . . where everybody is afraid of everybody else, where even a son fears his father and fathers fear their own blood-sons, as all become serfs and victims of the relentless god of Baal! . . . They are wild words of warning, and, unless we listen well and realize that we must counteract them by concerted, constant prayer and action, then these words...