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Show Reds Ease Assault on Religion; Christmas Rites Set i"2 h Poland, ter It daims faHy 90 which have closed a --pear to The re-- me is rr, ud that it His church is going on dropped harsh atheistic proa- - Often the secular funeral of a or Eastern per cent of the nation's S2 have done so for lack of as the'fiM Et: European withoU him Seventy per cent g and a and has extended the Communist priests. party official is ULaugnout Conununat Eastern Onhdox-- as weakened as it is million persons. The oourtry not because of direct covern-istat- e AI.....-.or- ,. .,.. ;! .' .... J u.. t to strike a d?. M'.'h this i( H'min'c r,-- r .At::n.. Europe d m luisssa. itus may be due to has more tl : pKeu AVacan- -a 24 actvrd that "t iic. The churches are open and 1971. On th Catholivment pressure. other, para funeral arranged bv the rran"s worshippers at rflidnight Mass. the greater respect in which than -hm -- ..muis i.uurung. neiiwus items are .newspapers aave ca:;-- a lor mother- -a v iTTT-- v custom that is . In junrf- vTu f t,-- .1 rf thnT.nHc k e to rew in and ism. 7,uo CMBr1 compared Hungarian homor icons thl work, tolerated if not encouraged, bleeps. It was. openly displaced in homes. But, continuing i ET7Commumsts took Eastern Europe mat has orJv tw or befo ,, hot in .ntrw seminaries, which are' folded this vear bv the1 .m;, IS " u dot ix Mxause. maimamea miiuence cy stud--; limited to 20 new students each appointment of two r.ew ar-- minority of ' . muvc,. vj the ievel." with the ' kev to controlled bv an office called are clergymen state-ownstares-- Jl unlike -the Russian Orthodox bornly standing up for its year. Lacking an agreement cnbishorts. f gaze peace priesU" who overcomina religion one and 'he denartment of ilts. which jur bishops and five own on families at their Church, these churches Vn both church andwiih the Vatican, 11 of the 14 apust,i;c administrators aV. wholeheartedly wllaburate with;ior all lung in the realization of pays clergymen, prints Bibles alright. 'tnked ith Protective mother rate celebrated their dioceses are va- - with the aparoval of both the government and are disCommuffixm.' iiT??35 t1"1- and maintains churches but All this --ill take place at the churches outside the Cornmu- - niurn three years ago, the two'cant. IHungurv and the Vatican The liked and mistrusted by the ?!1owf no church schools or Rr,m in:, uffrance of officially atheistic .nisi bloc. j Yet the church survives and M.r.dsentv case w as carefulh church. competed openly for crowds. nnsel1izin. !hth Or as a member of a church; The government has fought the state appears content with ignored and lie remains the governments and Communist " : Orthrvtnv hiit ihc aitu flc m j... parties who appear to have wedding in Romania said, it back with persecution, propa-jthiAfter au, the two greatest 'Archbishop: of Eater Km edged. On the one hand, it has . varv Uo w, at least for now, may be because of the roots ganda and travel restrictions' national heroes, revered both1 abandoned, VlVilK- 11U:CTU HIT V.11J V1I Bu garia is cWt to trie m umiuu aiiauiis on religion wnicn ce cnurcnes sunk in Ufce the one that kept Cardinal bv Communists Komaman lwn!lv and history Soviet After anti- - and position. churches that, little more Eastern Eruone 1.000 vears Wvszvnski in Poland from 1965 rirmmimist ar H dlurch.s are magni. th. church campjujms in the earh than a decade ago. were a aso. far beneath the shallow to 1968. r 'preM-n- , 11 J more for PmtPitsnt m3m-int!v fnn-19d0s. cwrch and state have,,,.., standard feature of Eastern topsail of 25 years of Commu- - Yet the church tn Poland and St. Wenceslas, who M:,... gave vahie. ! jnism. turopean we. D appears strong today. Tnere.ius life for as faith A. 1U1 In return, the major churches! "Its religion, ves." she said are 13,200 churches and cha- wsiaie Oliicia sa there are 8,563 ngttwupr reinforced bv what jhand, in Knminia u iti fcave. largely forsworn a;;gres-!"Bit's more. It's tradition, wis. compared with 7,257 "!ie Catholic church's position . W Wrf V jr:bllidc 111 lVlllUlllil j P,?a-aisive proselytizing and political and nationalism. We want ourjbefore the war. Theft arcfin Hungary is (UPll-T- he I? a!,",n' churches in the capital of Vietnam of Vietnamization do complicated by SAIGON - n ' m " !S one ine liucnarcsi alone. There is no innuence and me rescue of : have sworn Christmas and our churches u,uw pnesis, pius 7,aw monKs.tne case of Cardinal .Mindszen- - lono raaio saia rnoay uommu-icom-e w ni-to Call which. 569 it defiance. deals have made with in the and We want our monasteries. Religion is; ty, who took refuse m the loyalty enccurasement of religion governments troops mercenary 1, u',iJ".J lounuusa m,c anoin- - and tclirist at .east in theory, are dedicated traditions." in churches 'American Embas;v after Soviet v. ith elements of three South withdrawal of American troop taught ga;books give no to stamping them out. All this is a far cry from tiie'a It ho ugh no. in schools. tanks crushed the 19)6 divisioas toby driblets, the mercenary hmt wiien service s are held, but uprising Vietnamese army Hard-Lincomhat. The Saigon troops have started to refuse to. svoid Bulgaria are packed for each and has lived there in there is httle open d.sc. ura e Tiis uneasy cocrsstence be- - eari' 1950s when the on Command out'service dismissed the and to blot !nist 150,000 ever tried since. He has refused M:!i,ar)' regimes go the two powerful forces pilgrims Although two d vin 'Imrches ment e.ti.er and su.h rites as eperat.ns against of religion and coexistence .the churches by force. Atheistic! went to Ctestotchowa In 1966 to 'urging by both the government .t,e re5x,rt 33 completely false, people," the radio account said, have been built in P. air aria ch!u'.i wedding are gamiuj r puiantv. emerEed todav from a survey ProPaanaa flooded the area, jhear Cardinal n'sqroski speak. 'and the Vatican to co abroad toi "The platform of the National The 7th and 21st Divisions under the Communists, "A iew years aco church 3.200 were vanaaor are in onl.v churches .Liberation the Most vr hront . Catholic families t ciosei have.uve. in encourages correspondents ininures Mekonw River were lorbicden. a .. Romania uzea. priests and monks were owifutes in their homes and Both Budapest and Vatican these deals, the . iet Cone . .. Poland. Hungarv. country lor a.100 towns and weo-J.n' (Winv,csl 01 Nii0on. ine ciliesand on;. j.CQO now most oung "but thousands. burials-evnow fall the to in -en radio of to account said, by girl of have City and Yugoslavia reported Bulgaria, is appear party priets agreed Divi5u,n is stationed in, staff them. officials-a- re choslovakia. their conclusion: on consecrated fjdetly to ignore the old man in alleged agreements made with g.ris marry in the church as jBelievers were persecuted. and Church state have Tne churches still face 'ground. Private shops and the embassy. As a result, two troops of the 7th, 21st and 25th Hau Nghai and Long An' Two stores in Sofia sell icons well as having the required and a new edition of the New civil ceremony. decided that each probably is 'problems and restrictions. Butstalls sell religious items but 'important Hungarian Vatican Infantry Divisions of the South Provinces near Saigon. cam- - most of them are wholesaled by agreements have been reached Vietnamese army to be Ith rampant here to stay. appears printeo. But Religion A spokesman for the South Te.s,amt The religious picture varies 'paigns of the lS50s have long the Pax Catholic Association, a since 1964 that have opened a "This is reasonable because Vietnamese Military Command on!' tne Proverbial little old making a comeback among to church regularly. Romanian youth. from country to country, jsince stopped, partly through controversial lay group con- new era in church-stat- e rela- tlie mercenaries have no reason1 said the Viet Cots broadcast Christmas carols are sung on the moderating influences of demned by Wyszynski, which tions in Hungary. 10 die for the Americans.) v. as "a very beautiful imagina Sunday, December 2i, 1309 Sunday Herald 7A state radio and television in two men Nikita Khrushchev supports the regime, pays the Hunganan- - atican Accord American troops in the pro- - ry story." Poland brt not in Romania. In) and Pope John XXIII. salaries of several thousand most countries but not Poland! In addition, most of the "patriotic priests" and pub4he state pays all or part of Communist rulers of Eastern lishes the nation's only church priests salaries. In Poland, the! Europe are trying to establish a daily, Slowo Powszechne. The intransigence of a crusty old decree of independence from head of Pax is a Cardinal Stefcni Moscow. To do mis, they need wheeler-deal- s named Boleslaw churchman, WyszynsM, has maintained the popular support at home. This, Piasecki, who is one of the few church as a powerful institu-ji- n millionaires in turn, has led to a building of acknowledged tion. In Hungary, similar jnational pride and patriotism Communist Poland. Intransigence by Cardinal Joz- - and a resulting stress on the Unlike in most of the Eastern sef Minszenty has probablv individual nation's history. countries, the Polish church In most cases, this history Is supports itself and its 4S higher damaged the church by block Ing normalization of its rela intertwined with the church. seminaries. tions with, the state. Albania Party leaders, faced with a Relations now between proclaims itself the "first 'history based on religion or no church and state are tense but atheistic state." Next door, history at all, iiave tended to is Wyszynski that the state Yugoslavs have just elected a give the deity his due. complaining Polish Strength priest to a city council. grants too few authorizations to Russian Views In no country is toe Roman build new churches. Nowhere in Eastern Europe Catholic Church so strong as in A nd tempers flared last July when the Warsaw Diocese accused police of raiding a private home, taking away a religious items, quizzing priest who was holding services there and turning the budding into a farm store. Czechoslovakia presents a more typical picture. There, as elsewhere, the constitution gua- rantees religious freedom. i There, as elsewhere, the state ,.l for and controls the pays church. A state church office supervises religious affairs. Church-stat- e relations improved rapidly during the reform era last year of Alexander Dubcek. Religion ' was taught in the schools and the state church ofiiee was taken over by a liberal-mindwoman named Enka Kadlecova whose credo was "we must . protect believers.,, : . , Dr. Kadlecova has been purged now, religious instruc tions has been relegated to the churches and Czech diplomats admit that "we are still in the stage of preparation in improv- w relations with the Vatican. Czech Church Survives Still, the Catholic church claims some 63 per cent of the DODulation and at least half of a these behevers young and 01a alike are regular churchgoers. howSOUTH VIETNAMESE students disassemble a itzer at an artillery school near Tan Son Nhat airbase in Party newsoapers are beginning to accuse church leaders Saigon as die "Vietnamization" of the war continues at full of playing too active a roie swing. The South Vietnamese are being trained in combat under Dubcek. but toe cruder and support roles now being filled by American troops in forms of atheistic propaganda Vietnam. 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