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Died. Archbishop Joseph Grosz, 73, acting head of the Hungarian Roman Catholic Church; of a heart attack; at Kalocsa, Hungary. Arrested in 1951, Archbishop Grosz "confessed" to assorted anti-Red crimes and was sentenced to 15 years in prison, but received amnesty shortly before the bloody Budapest revolt in 1956 that sent Joseph Cardinal Mindszenty into refuge at the U.S. legation.* Grosz was able to keep the church alive in Red Hungary only by obeying most regime directives, including an oath of allegiance to the Communist constitution...
...stage, the actors and the well-rehearsed dialogue were almost the same; only the victim's name was different. In the same drab Budapest courtroom in which Joseph Cardinal Mindszenty was condemned, before the same Communist judge and prosecutor, Archbishop Joseph Grösz of Kalocsa last week went on trial for treason. Like Mindszenty, he "confessed."* Again the world saw the spectacle of a strong man broken and repeating in court what the Red scriptwriters dictated...
...parish priest. Like peasant-born Joseph Mindszenty, whom he succeeded two years ago as head of the Roman Catholic church in Hungary, peasant-born Grösz is a man whose character and courage are beyond question. When in 1945 Nazi bullies broke into his palace at Kalocsa and ordered him with raised Tommy guns to get out of town, Grösz said: "I can face any kind of machine gun and if necessary I can even die at my desk...
...Since Joseph Cardinal Mindszenty went to jail 21 months ago for defying the Red regime, 63-year-old Archbishop Joseph Grosz of Kalocsa has headed Hungary's bench of bishops. No weakling, Grosz once refused a Nazi order backed by machine guns, to leave his palace. Last June he protested to Rakosi when the Communists seized the monasteries and convents of Transdanubia, the heartland of Catholic Hungary. Rakosi smoothly replied that the state was ready to negotiate. At the time, monks and nuns were being imprisoned by the thousands and the bishops decided they had no choice...
...signed on behalf of the Bench of Bishops was no habitual appeaser. He was Archbishop Joseph Grosz of Kalocsa, a 63-year-old churchman whose character and courage are above question. When in 1945 Nazi bullies broke into his palace at Kalocsa and ordered him with drawn machine guns to get out of town, said Grosz: "I can face any kind of machine gun and if necessary I can even die at this desk." The Nazis left and the archbishop stayed...
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