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...door to the cell in Lepoglava Prison swung open. Inside, Archbishop Aloysius Stepinac, most important political prisoner in Titoist Yugoslavia, stood up to receive a visitor, A.P. Correspondent Alex Singleton. After 4½ years of a 16-year sentence imposed on him for alleged wartime collaboration with the Nazis, the prelate looked fit and unbroken. The newsman explained that Marshal Tito's regime had agreed to an uncensored interview and photographs. What message did the spiritual leader of Yugoslavia's 7,000,000 Roman Catholics have for the outside world...
...Vatican spokesman agreed that Stepinac had accurately presented the church's view. If Tito had allowed the interview with his prisoner as a gesture toward a rapprochement with Roman Catholicism, he now knew where matters stood. Next move seemed...
...Pope would do about the lands behind the Iron Curtain, where two cardinals have died (Poland's Hlond in 1948 and Berlin's von Preysing last month), and many a prominent priest and prelate has been imprisoned (e.g., Hungary's Cardinal Mindszenty, Yugoslavia's Archbishop Stepinac...
When Tito's minions in 1946 tried and convicted Roman Catholic Archbishop Aloysius Stepinac on trumped-up treason charges, Stepinac did not confess. Apparently the Kremlin never gave Tito the secret of the "monstrous method." Last week there were rumors that Tito might release Stepinac from prison...
...overwhelming majority of Stepinac alumni will, of course, remain laymen. But through their adolescent years they will have had the most thorough religious instruction their thoroughgoing church can provide. In a ninth-grade religion class last week, Father Joseph Sum reminded his young hearers: "At the end of the world our bodies will be reunited with our souls and either enjoy the beatific vision of Heaven or suffer the tortures of Hell." He led a careful discussion on the moral issues of the purpose of life...