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...Hungarian Catholics felt about Josef Cardinal Mindszenty, whom the Reds put in jail as a "traitor" (TIME, Jan. 10). The reporter found that Mikofalva's people thought their cardinal a good man. But he also found some exceptions. The strangest of these was Father Endre Molnar. Father Molnar is a Communist...
...First Communist. Father Molnar explained his peculiar faith to his visitors, just as his congregation was leaving his hilltop church, the women placid in bright calico skirts, the men proud in black Sunday suits and polished black boots. Father Molnar has built up an unreal paradoxical world in which history's most sharply opposite faiths are fantastically synthesized. He declared himself a strong believer in Marxism, but he maintained that spiritual guidance remained the clergy's rightful monopoly. On his bookshelf, he keeps church literature next to Stalin's Problems of Leninism. Marx's Kapital...
...Father Molnar's archbishop, Gyula Czapik, has never reprimanded him for his heresy against Christianity. (In his diocese, five other priests-out of 450-are Communists.) Nor have Mikofalva...
Communists denounced Father Molnar. In Mikofalva's only school, now run by the government, the teachers have not removed the crucifixes from the walls. Said the secretary of the local Communist Party: "I would rather resign or face a purge than remove the image of the first Communist, Jesus Christ...
...Neighbor's Plow. But the majority of Father Molnar's flock object to his dual faith. They are strongly in favor of Mindszenty. Father Molnar barely managed to prevent a violent clash between Mikofalva's Communists and the pro-Mindszen-ty villagers. "A spark could have set off the flame," he said. He did not dare preach against Mindszenty. Privately, however, he referred to the cardinal as an anti-democrat. To Father Molnar it seemed that the cardinal simply had not been reasonable. "He knew he would be arrested sooner or later. He could have escaped...