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When Mindszenty began criticizing conditions in Hungary, a papal nuncio reminded him of a Vatican promise to the Communists that the cardinal would accept the Pope's guidance and not disrupt church relations with the Hungarian regime-a condition to which Mindszenty said he never agreed. Mindszenty told the Vatican that "I shrank from the thought of having to keep silent in the free world." As a result-on the 25th anniversary of the day Mindszenty's trial ended-Pope Paul stripped him of his episcopal office. To Mindszenty, it meant "complete and total exile...
...arrival of Soviet troops force him to flee to the American legation in Budapest. Citing what he regarded as his duty as prince primate and as a patriot to remain in his homeland, Mindszenty stayed there for 15 years, writing, studying, and celebrating mass daily. He resisted the Vatican's pleas that the he leave until in 1971 a detente-minded President Nixon joined Pope Paul VI in asking him to leave. An embittered Mindszenty surrendered, entering into exile in Vienna...
...least in the traditional sense. Nothing much actually happens. But perhaps the author wants to say that politics is a lot of stale talk. Watergate flows in the book like so much flotsam. "Liddy had 50 Minoltas," remarks one character idly. Cavanaugh is amused by the fact that Vatican money financed the Watergate apartment building: "Maybe I should pay closer attention to what Monsignor Lally writes in the Pilot...
...book is the joint product of 36 respected Protestant and Catholic theologians, most of them German and German-Swiss, who were commissioned to write it by Europe's Herder publishing house. The Catechism grew out of conversations at Vatican Council II between the Rev. Lukas Vischer, the top theologian at the World Council of Churches, and his friend Father Johannes Feiner, who was later appointed to the Pope's theological commission. Although Vischer and Feiner edited the book, it lacks official Protestant status, and the Vatican has made no comment...
Keep Silent. Kung himself claimed victory and said the Vatican was admitting that "the secret inquisitorial proceedings against me were a failure." Other Catholic observers noted that although the Vatican's admonition insisted on the infallibility of the church, it did not explicitly mention the infallibility of the Pope, one of Kung's most celebrated targets. Will Kung now keep silent on the disputed ideas, as the Vatican asks? He hinted that he might: "Right now my mind is turned toward other questions. I do not intend to raise the old ones in future books." But, "I will not tolerate...