Word: vatican
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Helpful Agencies." Birkhead summed up: "It seems clear that Guy Emery Shipler-perhaps in the belief that he has found the only alternative or antithesis to the Vatican-has gone over to the side of the fronters ... He could not be more helpful to the Kremlin policy if he were a member of the party ... By his gesture of support to countless Communist organizations and his championing of a line consistent only in that it protects Stalin's foreign policy, Guy Emery Shipler and his magazine are very helpful agencies by which the Communist Party does its work...
...This phrase in the Vatican's official transTation did not mean that the Pope knew what the Communists had done to Mindszenty but was not free to reveal it. In his Italian draft, the Pope used the phrase influenze inconjessabili-unspeakable influences. What these were, said a Vatican official, the Pope did not know...
When the Russians came they opened the jail doors to all political prisoners. Mindszenty hitchhiked back to Veszprem. Soon the Vatican gave him a new see, Esztergom, which carries with it primacy over all others in the land...
...three years, Mindszenty had risen rapidly from parish priest to Prince-Primate. The church knew it was entering a fateful struggle in Hungary. Mindszenty was inexperienced, with little knowledge of the world or of diplomacy. He had, however, two assets that must have recommended him to the Vatican: 1) an anti-Nazi record so clear that the Communists could not besmirch it, and 2) extraordinary strength of character...
...VATICAN CITY, Feb. 13-Vatican circles said today anathema-the most dreaded and awesome form of excommunication in the Roman Catholic Church-conceivably may be invoked against the foes of Josef Cardinal Mindszenty at tomorrow's extraordinary papal consistory...