Word: cardinalate
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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The day after Christmas, the Communist police came for Joseph Cardinal Mindszenty. His mother had told him: "Son, do not be afraid of death, if necessary."
The presiding judge asked: "Did anyone force you to make your confession?" Mindszenty answered: "No." The judge then mentioned the letter which Mindszenty had written before his arrest, repudiating any confession he might make. Said the cardinal: "I want to state that I see things differently now. I want to...
* John Fisher, bishop of Rochester, was named a cardinal in May 1535, after Henry VIII had imprisoned him. Henry prohibited delivery of the red hat to England, declaring that instead he would send Fisher's head to Rome for the hat. Shortly thereafter, Fisher was beheaded.
* On trial with Mindszenty were six other men also accused of participating in the "conspiracy." They all "confessed," including the cardinal's secretary, Andras Zachar and Prince Paul Eszterhazy, once Hungary's richest man.
Last Sunday was set aside by American Catholics as a day of "prayer and protest" against the Communists' trial of Cardinal Mindszenty. In Manhattan's St. Patrick's Cathedral, Francis Cardinal Spellman-who received his red hat with Mindszenty at the 1946 consistory-delivered a remarkable sermon...