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...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 but to sit down with...
Negotiations began July 9 in the grey Victorian offices of the Ministry of Education in Budapest. Rakosi himself represented the state. Fearing his age and slowness of speech might handicap the church's case, Archbishop Grosz appointed a chief advocate: Father Ferenc Horvath, a red-cheeked little Jesuit priest...
Horvath opened by demanding the release of Cardinal Mindszenty. Replied Rakosi: "Please, no arguments. The people decided that...
...Answered Rakosi: "It's no use. We can't turn the clock back." In the weeks following, the church brought up Mindszenty again & again. Rakosi was adamant...
Monks in Underwear. In later sessions, the talk turned to religious education and the survival of monasteries. Rakosi promised to return eight of the 157 church schools he had seized two years ago, and to include religious courses in the curriculum of Hungarian schools. But he insisted that the monasteries must go. While the talks went on, crews of Communist thugs were emptying monasteries and convents, in September emptied the last...