Word: stehlik
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Last week, however, the Vatican reacted vigorously to Communist announcements that Prague's Archbishop Josef Beran had been expelled from his archdiocese and that his authority had been taken over by Antonin Stehlik, until recently an obscure parish priest in a Prague suburb. The Sacred Consistorial Congregation, headed by the Pope, issued a declaration restating the laws on excommunication and asserting that "all those who have contributed . . . physically or morally" to the banishment of Beran and to the subversion of the Czech church have incurred excommunication "in accordance with canon law . . . and will remain subjected to excommunication until they...
...National" Churches. A Vatican spokesman said that Antonin Stehlik was under "the strongest and most painful suspicion" of having incurred excommunication. But even in his case, the Vatican's information about what is going on in Prague is so incomplete that he has not been excommunicated by name. In discussing Stehlik's case, one Vaticaner said: "We can't be certain because of the scandalous closing down of all channels of communication between the Apostolic See and Czechoslovakia...
Rome believed reports that the Communists used Beran's absence from his duties as an excuse for election of a new diocesan administrator. The Reds packed the chapter with docile priests and Stehlik was elected capitular Vicar of Prague. Presiding at the election was Bishop Antonin Eltschkner, auxiliary to Beran. A year ago, Eltschkner was the first bishop to swear loyalty to the Prague regime. Although the Vatican did not forbid such oaths, the fact was that Eltschkner gave the Communists a tremendous boost...