Word: romanism
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Slovakia last week, peasants armed with scythes and clubs assailed police who entered parish churches to arrest Roman Catholic priests. At least two policemen were killed. Workers' militia and regular troops were rushed to the areas of disturbance...
From church pulpits throughout Czechoslovakia, Roman Catholic priests last Sunday read a defiant, 4,000-word pastoral letter, delivered to them by couriers sent out from a secret meeting of the country's bishops. They read it despite nocturnal visits from the police, despite the warning of Communist Premier Zapotocky that further "antistate" activity would be met with arrests and trials. They were fortified with the words of their archbishop, Josef Beran, who remained in his Prague palace surrounded by armed plainclothesmen. "Do not allow yourselves to be intimidated by threats," he had written. "In these difficult times...
...Whenever Roman Catholics take a public drubbing for their policy in Spain, they can retort, as the Jesuit weekly America did last spring: "Let us look at Sweden. It has an established Lutheran church, apparently unaware (like England) of the 'great Protestant principle' of separation of church and state. Without special permission of the Swedish government, the Catholic Church can own no property in Sweden, as Protestants can do in Spain ... Do American Catholics, or indeed, Swedish Catholics (5,809 in a population of 6,000,000) shout about Lutheran 'persecution' of Catholics in Sweden...
...this argument Protestants have their answer. Replied the weekly Christian Century to America: "The restrictions upon Protestants in Spain are much more drastic and far-reaching than the restrictions upon Roman Catholics in Sweden. But," the Century added thoughtfully, "it is well that the similarities, as far as they go, should be cited ... A vestige of ... medieval theory and practice remains . . . [weaving] a shoddy strand into the fabric of the Protestant argument for religious liberty...
...Swede would be free to leave the Lutheran Church without joining any other Christian community (he is now required to join another Christian church). ¶All non-Lutheran pastors would be allowed to officiate at weddings (only Lutherans, Methodists, Jews and Roman Catholics may now do so). ¶Permission to establish Catholic convents and monasteries in Sweden, denied since 1595, would once again be granted. ¶Teachers of all Christian denominations would be allowed to teach in all school levels (non-Lutherans are now barred from teaching in elementary schools). ¶Non-Lutherans would have to pay only one-half...