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 Chur...
Nicaragua: 'The Church is being silenced' https://www.indcatholicnews.com/news/45353 Aid to the Church in Need (ACN) is urgently calling for prayers for Nicaragua amid a dramatic escalation of efforts to silence the Church. The appeal comes after a bishop was arrested last week, which followed the expulsion of the country's Apostolic Nuncio. Regina Lynch, international projects director of ACN, said: "These events represent a further escalation in a spiral of confrontation." Ms Lynch added: "We are witnessing an attempt to silence the Church in Nicaragua. And there is no easy solution. We need to support them as much as possible. We must pray that there may be a peaceful solution and not a further increase in hostilities." Bishop Rolando Álvarez of Matagalpa, who is also Apostolic Administrator of the vacant See of the Diocese of Estelí, was abducted in the early morning on 19th August, along with others including three priests, two seminarians, a deac...
Pope Francis Canonized Almost 1000 Saints During His Papacy - Here's Some of Them - : As we celebrate Pope Francis' 10th anniversary, let us contemplate his legacy by remembering the saints he canonized.
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