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Price to Pay. The leftward step seemed to be the naming of Father Gyorgy Zemplen, 63, as auxiliary bishop to the apostolic administrator of Eszter-gom. Esztergom, which includes part of Budapest, is the old metropolitan see of Jozsef Cardinal Mindszenty, now largely ignored in his self-imposed exile at the U.S. embassy - and Zemplen is known to have friendly relations with the Kadar government...
Obviously, the Vatican felt that the Zemplen appointment was part of the price it had to pay for a greater episcopal presence in Hungary. What this presence means is a more visible church, hopeful of inspiring confidence, in a Communist country where other signs of the faith are rigidly limited. Religious education remains severely circumscribed, and even the appointment of parish priests is still subject to the ap proval of the government...
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