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Post by loughcrew on Jul 4, 2011 11:27:51 GMT
I am reading an old book titled 'Russia's Danubian Empire' by Gordon Shepherd and it contains a wealth of information on Catholic Church as the only opposition to the communist annexation of Eastern bloc countries in the aftermath of WWII. It is eye opening stuff especially in regard to Cardinal Mindszenty in Hungary and also to the Church in Czechoslavakia. The contrast between the capitulaion of Orthodox and Protestant hierarchies to the new regimes and the persecution of Catholic Church in not be more stark. I will be inclined to research more on this in the future.
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Post by losleandros on Jul 7, 2011 11:02:31 GMT
Sounds like an excellent book. It's amazing how the liberal/left/media have distorted the role of the Catholic Church in this regard. The great Catholic convert poet Roy Campbell, described the liberal/left Bloomsbury set ( including George Bernard Shaw ) which supported the disastrous atheist experimnts of the 20th century, as " intellectuals without intellect ". There's still a lot of them about in the media & academia.
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Post by loughcrew on Jul 8, 2011 8:05:58 GMT
The fact that the book was written in 1954 so shortly after the Iron Curtain fell across eastern Europe means the author was closer to primary sources, but certainly Cardinal Mindszenthy in Hungary and Monsignor Beran in Czechoslavakia emerge as two pillars of the church in those dark times for Catholics. Even in countries with small or even negligible Catholic populations, such as Rumania, Bulgaria and Albania the Catholic church was always singled out for attention by the state atheists.
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Post by hibernicus on Jul 10, 2011 16:03:05 GMT
I might add that Eastern Rite Catholics generally got it worst of all.
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Post by hibernicus on Mar 5, 2019 21:49:00 GMT
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