Word: archbishop
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...dusk on the eve of the Feast of Corpus Christi, Archbishop Josef Beran walked past Tommy gun-toting plainclothesmen, passed through the gates of his magnificent baroque palace on Prague's Hradcany Square, and stepped into his black, eight-cylindered Tatra. While Communist police continued their four-day search of the archbishop's palace, he sped off to the ancient monastery of Strahov, where about 3,000 of the faithful awaited...
...words he chose to leave unsaid at the monastery, the archbishop had put into a pastoral letter, to be read from Catholic pulpits throughout the country. In it, he summarized the successive steps the Czech Communist government has taken to gain control of the church and its schools, rejected the charges leveled at the church hierarchy, pointed out that "the issue does not concern a settlement between church and state ... It is an issue of ... replacing Christianity by Marxism, which assumes for the state the rights in matters of conscience, faith and morals -something no Christian can accept...
...Better Go Home." When the archbishop finished his sermon, he moved to the altar for prayers. He leaned heavily on his staff, tapping it audibly on the flagstones while two acolytes helped to support him. First he prayed for the youth of Czechoslovakia, that they should not be misled. He prayed for those Catholics who are wavering in faith, that they might be strengthened and not "turned aside by lies and distorted reports." Last he prayed for the "Judases who are betraying their priestly calling, who are allowing themselves to be tempted by short-term successes and material benefits...
...Czech government says it is merely trying to stop church interference in politics. Archbishop Beran last week ordered Catholics to stay out of the new Catholic Action. Archbishop Beran said: "If some of you should be invited to join it, be aware that it is a schismatic movement...
...Died. Archbishop Damaskinos (born Dimetrios Papandreou), 58, towering (6 ft. 4 in.) white-bearded Primate of the Greek Orthodox Church; after a heart attack; in Psychico, Greece. A onetime army private (in the 1912 Balkan War) an amateur wrestler, Damaskinos entered the priesthood in 1917, was elected Archbishop in 1938 but was exiled to a monastery by Dictator John Metaxas. He returned as Archbishop three years later, vigorously opposed the Nazi-led occupation (he sheltered Athens' Jews, offered himself as a hostage, went to the Germans carrying a rope and dared them to hang him). As regent...