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Hungary has produced perhaps the most interesting sign of change. Last month, in the party journal Tarsadalmi Szemle (Social Review), Red Theoretician Josef Lukacs, editor of an atheist magazine, argued that "we do not get very far with the old-type atheism and anticlerical ism which tried to fight against religion in an abstract manner," and that Communism should cooperate with "well-intentioned religious people" in achieving common social goals...
...toward normalization of church-state relations by signing an agreement with the Vatican allowing it to appoint bishops to a number of sees. Kadar now seems willing to move on from there and provide more freedom for the country's 6,000,000 Catholics. His condition is that Josef Cardinal Mindszenty, who still lives in the U.S. legation on Freedom Square in Budapest, will play no active role in the Hungarian church. The Vatican is reluctant to negotiate any settlement over Mindszenty's head, would like to find a way for the heroic old cardinal to leave...
...still arrested for anti-regime activities. But even here the church's prospects are improving. President Antonin Novotny is eager to touch up the Czech image in the West, and his government was clearly embarrassed when the Pope bestowed a red hat on Prague's Archbishop Josef Beran, now under house arrest. Czech exiles in Rome are preparing Beran's quarters for the consistory, and last week there were rumors that Casaroli had all but completed an agreement with the Reds. Beran would be called to the Curia; in return, the government might allow the Vatican...
...Pope did not forget the 65 million Catholics who live under Communism. Among those elevated to the purple were two prelates no longer in command of their sees: Ukrainian Metropolitan Josyf Slipyi, who came to Rome in 1963 after 18 years of Soviet imprisonment, and Czech Primate Josef Beran, who is still under virtual house arrest near Prague. One new East European cardinal who does govern his diocese is Yugoslavia's Primate, Archbishop Franjo Seper of Zagreb. His careful policy of accommodation with Tito may lead to a restoration of diplomatic relations between the Vatican and Yugoslavia...
...dacha outside Moscow, Nikita could take some comfort in the fact that he was not yet being subjected to the treatment given to that other fallen leader-Josef Stalin. In the current Novy Mir, wartime Soviet Ambassador to London Ivan Maisky cuttingly elaborates on the tale that Stalin locked himself in his Kremlin study the day the Nazis invaded Russia and didn't bother to come out until four days later, by which time Hitler's hordes had the Red Army reeling all along the Russian front. But someone high in the Kremlin must recall old Joe with...