With full Vatican approval, but no direct Vatican participation, the Roman Catholic Church in Hungary has been carrying on negotiations with the country's Red regime. Last week came word of a limited arrangement for coexistence.
The talks turned in part on Hungary's collaborationist clergy, organized as the "National Committee of Priests for Peace." The group included only 300 of Hungary's 6,000 priests, but with government backing it was in virtual charge of the Hungarian church in the years before last fall's uprising. After his release from imprisonment, Cardinal Mindszenty threatened all "peace...
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