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...cardinals are from Communist countries-Poland's Archbishop Stefan Wyszynski (pronounced Vishinsky) and Yugoslavia's Archbishop Aloysius Stepinac. Archbishop Wyszynski, Primate of Poland, has avoided an open break with the Communists, has kept some freedom in ministering to Poland's 20 million Catholics. Stepinac. an uncompromising enemy of the Tito government, was released in 1951 after five years in jail (TIME, Dec. 17, 1951). He is now confined to his native village of Krasic. Tito has refused to let him return to his archbishopric of Zagreb, and he has refused to leave Yugoslavia. He will probably...
...Need for Western assistance caused the conditional release of Archbishop Stepinac...
...either dead or in Siberia. The Lithuanian bishop of Kaisedorys and the Estonian apostolic administrator have been sent to Siberia. One Hungarian bishop, the Vatican announced, "has probably died" in a concentration camp. In Yugoslavia, Titoist but still Communist, one bishop is in jail, two (including Archbishop Aloysius Stepinac) are under house arrest...
...Freedom Is Suffocated." Tito, by releasing the archbishop, obviously hoped to better his standing with the U.S.,* from which he wants military aid. The gesture did get him favorable headlines-but it did not satisfy the Vatican. Stepinac's new status, while "less hard" than imprisonment, said a church spokesman, is mainly "polvere negli occhi" (dust in the eyes...
...church still wants Tito's regime to recognize Stepinac's innocence. It regrets Belgrade's reference to "the former archbishop"-no state, in the Vatican view, has the right to elevate or depose a prelate. Finally, there is the fate of the Roman Catholic Church in Yugoslavia. Said the Vatican's Osservatore Romano: "Another bishop, His Excellency Monsignor Peter Cule of Mostar, is still unjustly held in jail . . . Fully 200 priests and religious are in prison. Seminaries are still held requisitioned, and monasteries and convents are still confiscated . . . Freedom of worship ... is suffocated...