Word: moriendi
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...East Germany-and Vatican-Soviet relations are in cold storage. Moreover, the church is aware that any concessions offered represent tactical maneuvers, not any real reduction of Marxist hostility to religion. Thus, for the time being, Pope Paul hopes to obtain not a modus vivendi but a modus non moriendi (a way of not dying...
...Modus Moriendi? The heat went on early in 1950. The Communists took over the Catholic charitable organization Caritas. charging that it was a spy center. Bishop Wyszynski and the aged Adam Cardinal Sapieha, archbishop of Cracow, wrote to Communist President Boleslaw Bierut complaining of "abnormal moral pressure . . . organized hunts after priests." who were sometimes arrested and dragged off in their vestments. The Communists replied by confiscating all lands held by religious orders. The following month, while Cardinal Sapieha was in Rome, Primate Wyszynski shocked the Vatican by negotiating an agreement with the Red regime...
...territories taken from Germany after World War II, socialization of Poland and expansion of industry, while the state guaranteed continued freedom of worship, religious education and the church press. Cardinal Sapieha, behind whose back Wyszynski had negotiated the armistice, muttered: "This is not a modus vivendi but a modus moriendi." And a way of dying it certainly appeared...
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