From a piece posted by my husband:
"Today is the birthday of the late, great Cardinal Jozsef Mindszenty, and an appropriate time to mention that Ignatius Press has issued an impressive new edition of his Memoirs [affiliate link], with an introduction by Daniel Mahoney, a timeline of his struggles with Hungarian totalitarianism, and 70 pages of relevant documents. The book does a valuable service, to ensure that the story of a man who was once the world’s leading symbol of Catholic resistance to Communism does not pass lightly from the public memory.Imagine a Pope (Pius XII) excommunicating everyone involved in the show trial of a victim of Communism, Cardinal Mindszenty."
Imagine a Pope (Pius XII) excommunicating everyone involved in the show trial of a victim of Communism, Cardinal Mindszenty.
It is possible but barely conceivable today. Yet so needed: Think of all the medical personnel involved in immoral acts and crimes against children, including the unborn; think of politicians using their power to keep abortion legal and undermine marriage!
Imagine a Pope (Paul VI) lifting that excommunication and betraying that victim all over again.
Possible and sadly, believable.
By why would the Pope do that?
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DeleteI went to Cardinal Mindszenty High School in Dunkirk, NY. The Cardinal visited the school a couple of years before I started there. It was an honor to be at a school named for him, and I’m grateful that I was there. Plus it was so much fun. The people of Dunkirk and Fredonia were salt-of-the-earth types. Unfortunately it closed because Catholic education was becoming unaffordable for the barely-middle-class parents who sent their kids to CMHS. It was also the last of the years of being able to believe your kids were getting a Catholic education at a Catholic high school. You mention Paul VI. It’s said that his “miracle” was making priests disappear. He also made nuns disappear by encouraging innovation, which included harmful psychological experiments. With nuns leaving by the hundreds and vocations falling through the floor, Catholic school costs skyrocketed. I never knew Paul VI lifted the excommunication of the people who ran the sham trial of Cardinal Mindszenty, but now that you mention it, I’m not surprised.
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