Word: josef
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...following year, Ottaviani's own domain came under attack when Germany's Josef Cardinal Frings charged that the Holy Office's secretive methods were "an object of scandal" to the world. Pope Paul VI, just after the council closed, ordered a sweeping liberalization of the Holy Office...
...Yugoslavia, which was expelled from the Stalinist Cominform in 1948, the church faces typical Communist harassments in attenuated form. In Hungary, it is precisely 30 years since Josef Cardinal Mindszenty was drugged, stripped naked and whipped with a rubber truncheon in preparation for his Communist Party show trial as a traitor. Today Catholic bishops are installed in every see, but the bureaucracy has control even of the assignment of priests, and it tightly restricts seminary enrollment. Czechoslovakia is nearly a throwback to Stalinism. Only three bishops, all aging, hold permanent appointments among the 13 sees. Two seminaries exist...
...Josef Marcuse...
...DIED. Josef Frings, 91, outspoken West German Roman Catholic Cardinal; of a heart attack; in Cologne. Named Archbishop of Cologne in 1942, Frings denounced the Nazi persecution of the Jews during World War II, and after the war condoned his destitute countrymen's scavenging for food and coal (such justifiable theft became affectionately known as "fringsen"). Appointed a Cardinal in 1946, he strove for a politically active church and during the Second Vatican Council (1962-65), successfully challenged the authority of the conservative Roman Curia. In 1969, nearly blind and in poor health, Frings retired from the archbishopric...
What a peculiar order Josef Mengele, the evil Nazi scientist, gives to the aging party goons he has assembled in the great house in Paraguay: Kill 94 men, all of them petty civil servants scattered around the world, and kill them on or near their 65th birthdays as they occur over the next 2½ years. Still, true to their code, the Nazis obey his command unquestioningly...