After the government issued an order to nationalize Catholic schools earlier that year, Cardinal Mindszenty drove from village to village with a sound truck,


 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 in Hungary.
On 7 October 1945 the Vatican appointed Mindszenty the Primate of Hungary and Archbishop of Esztergom. Mindszenty soon proved to be just as relentless in his defense of human rights under communism and became an uncompromising critic of the new regime.
The government expropriated the churches' property with land reform, and in July 1948 it nationalized church schools. Protestant church leaders reached a compromise with the government, but the head of the Roman Catholic Church -- Cardinal Jozsef Mindszenty -- resisted.”

Mark Lysogorski
1 year ago
Thank you Father, and may God bless and Protect you. I have read the Cardinal's Memoirs, and am re-reading them. It Literally is an almost day by day and minute by minute account, of what is going on in the United States Now

Elvira Donaghy
1 year ago
THANK YOU FATHER HEWKO, THIS IS SO IMPORTANT TO HEAR NOW. THIS IS HAPPENING NOW IN OUR COUNTRY. 
HOW CAN THESE PEOPLE FOLLOW COMMUNISM, FASCISM AND ATHEISM?
MAY GOD MOVE IN BEHALF OF OUR LITTLE CHILDREN.



Charles putnam1982
2 years ago (edited)
Read George Shuster's "In Silence I Speak''(1956) about Cardinal Mindszenty and his beloved Hungary, published only a few months before the Hungarian Explosion and the liberation of The Cardinal from red gaol. 
A beautiful story of Faith under oppression

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gNxP_UJOtL4



On this day in 1949, Cardinal József Mindszenty of Hungary was condemned to life imprisonment by communist officials after being arrested on trumped-up charges. Silenced in the first of many prisons, he could not foresee that a Catholic fraternal organization across the Atlantic — the Knights of Columbus — would come to his aid as part of its decades-long battle against communist ideology.

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