Church or State-That is the question

 

 After the government issued an order to nationalize Catholic schools earlier that year, Cardinal Mindszenty drove from village to village with a sound truck, urging the populace to resist forfeiting church property. When parliament confirmed the seizure of schools, he made sure protest rang from every church tower, tolling the bells as if for a funeral. https://www.kofc.org/en/news-room/columbia/2021/december/kofc-battle-against-soviet-ideology.html “In 1945 the Church lost its landed property in the first postwar land reform, which occurred before the communist takeover. Most Catholic religious orders (fifty-nine of a total of sixty-three groups) were dissolved in 1948, when religious schools were also taken over by the state. Most Catholic associations and clubs, who numbered about 4,000, were forced to disband. Imprisoned and prosecuted for political resistance to the communist regime were a number of clergy, most notably Cardinal Jozsef Mindszenty, primate of the Catholic Church i

Reflections of a Catholic School Teacher: Putting First Things First : Our Catholic schools need to be more Catholic, but it can be difficult to determine exactly what “being more Catholic” should entail.

Why Religious Liberty Matters : All politics, and culture, is a contest of elites. The question is, which elite will dominate the halls of politics and culture?

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Archbishop: 'When life is decided by court, humanity is defeated' https://www.indcatholicnews.com/news/45241

Well, give it what name you like, call it as I do here, "The Modern Attack" or as I think men will soon have to call it "Anti-Christ". Hilarie Belloc It is not the revolt of the oppressed; it is not the rising of the proletariat against capital injustice and cruelty; it is something from without, some evil spirit taking advantage of men's distress and at their anger at unjust conditions. Now that thing is at out gates. Ultimately, of course, it is the fruit of the original break-up of Christendom at the Reformation. It began with the denial of central authority, it has ended by telling man he is sufficient to himself. and it has set up everywhere great idols to be worshipped as Gods. It is not only on the communist side it appears also in the organizations opposed to them; in the races and nations where mere force has been set up in place of God. These also set up idols to which hideous human sacrifice is paid. By these also justice and the right orde