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...said opposition leader Ricardo Arias Calderon. On Thursday, Noriega ordered a crackdown to weed out traitors. That night, P.D.F. troops attacked the opposition headquarters and hauled away several people, including Endara. The opposition leader was later released and at week's end was holed up inside the Vatican embassy...
...Minsk, capital of Belorussia, Tadeusz Kondrusiewicz, 43, was named apostolic administrator (acting bishop under direct Vatican jurisdiction), thus becoming the leader of the republic's 2 million Catholics. Kondrusiewicz, a former architect who attended seminary in Lithuania, has been a priest only since...
...most dramatic church reforms have occurred in Lithuania. The Kremlin has permitted a nearly complete hierarchy, even though the Vatican refuses to recognize the U.S.S.R.'s 1940 annexation of Lithuania. In 1988 the regime restored the two top churchmen, who between them spent 53 years in internal exile. In March the Pope named three new bishops (the first since World War II) and two apostolic administrators, so that five of the six dioceses have resident leaders...
FOOTNOTE: *Other Communist regimes with full Vatican ties: Cuba and nonaligned Yugoslavia...
...Communist countries in the East bloc with sizable Catholic populations will follow Poland's diplomatic lead. The government of Hungary has restored some religious rights, and Rome has responded warmly, but there are no hints that these moves will be sufficient to forge a new diplomatic relationship with the Vatican. Rome's prospects with the hard-line rulers of Czechoslovakia are far dimmer. In the Soviet Union the enforced illegality of Catholicism in the Ukraine appears to present an intractable barrier. Still, when John Paul was elected Pope, it seemed just as unlikely that the Holy See would ever exchange...