Word: lutheranism
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Ordass has been persecuted by the Reds ever since he opposed nationalization of church schools, in 1948 was jailed for 20 months on a trumped-up charge. Later he was stripped of his post as primate of the Hungarian Lutheran Church. In 1956, partly because of pressure from Lutherans the world over, he was finally cleared, resumed his post. Last year Ordass got permission to attend an international Lutheran assembly in Minneapolis (TIME, Aug. 19), but after his return, he was slapped in the Red press for his "antiCommunist addresses," was replaced by Collaborationist Bishop Lajos Veto as Hungary...
Hungary's Lutheran Bishop Lajos Ordass, whose courageous sermons drew crowds even after he was in deep political disgrace with the Red regime, will no longer appear in Hungarian pulpits...
...Geneva, the World Council of Churches and the Lutheran World Federation could only protest and reiterate "full confidence" in Lajos Ordass. From Vienna a TIME correspondent cabled this picture of the defeated bishop: "He now lives in a two-room Budapest apartment with his wife, two daughters and two grandchildren. Wearing an old grey sweater, as grey as his face, and smoking too much, Ordass manages to speak serenely despite the fact that he is obviously ill. He may or may not get a pension from the government. But his wife, who is suffering from asthma, recently learned...
...Henceforth he will be allowed to preach only on the specific invitation of a Lutheran church, which he is not expected to seek, since he wants to avoid further trouble for his fellow pastors. But, while he may be a man without a church, he will never be without a flock. He is, in the view of one of his pastors, the most popular man in Hungary today...
...romance of Leland Cummings Jr. and Mary Louise Werner roused Protestant and Catholic tempers last year. When the pair decided to get married, Leland's Roman Catholic parents sued Mary's Lutheran parents for $500,000 for enticing Leland away from his church with a $75-a-month allowance and the promise of a $25,000 job in Mr. Werner's ironworks in Milwaukee (TIME, July 1). Mary's father filed a countersuit, the litigation was dropped, the wedding bells (Lutheran) rang...