HIS-Press-Service, 1978 (3. évfolyam, 9-12. szám)
1978-02-01 / 10. szám
HIS Press Service No.10. February 1978 Page 5 That György Adam's organizational activity proved successful stems partially from two circumstances: Firstly, G.Ádám did not exclusively concern himself with providing help for Hungarian Catholics, but instead aided all refugee groups in their efforts at forming communities; in other words, he promoted the aspiration itself, and not simply certain interests of one national group. Secondly, in addition to pastoral care, he also directed his attention to offering cultural support of the Hungarian faithful. The high points of this activity were as follows: During a very successful talk presented by him on the occasion of the German Catholics Day in 1956, he made some suggestions for ways of applying the papal constitution Exul Familia. This speech played a significant part in promoting the formation of independently acting national pastoral centers in West Germany. Up to the time of his death, G. Adam served as adviser in Church matters to the Sudeten-German Ackermann Community - an influential Catholic organization - as well as to the Exile Catholics Work Group in West Germany. Together with agencies of the State of Bayern and the City of Munich, he participated in 1957 in founding the Encounter House in Munich. The members of the House's board of trustees elected him as chairman. In 1958 the Catholic student boarding house, the Paulinum, for students from Central and Eastern Europe was opened.The erection of this building stemmed from the initiatives of. G. Adam and was erected in accordance with his directives. Its construction was financed by the State of Bayern, the German government, and the "Ostpriesterhilfe" (Aid to the Church in Need). G.Ádám was also chairman of its board of trustees until the spring of 1977. G.Ádám acted as confessor and advisor to a community of sisters in Munich since 1950. The community expressed its thanks to him in the form of contributions for the constantly financially uncertain organizational activity of the Hungarian pastoral program. To effect an extensive expansion of the Hungarian pastoral program, G.Ádám founded the monthly informational newsletter Pannónia Sacra in 1955. In 1969, this publication was combined with the news services being offered by the other Hungarian pastoral centers in Europe. In their place there appeared the monthly information service of Hungarian Catholics in Europe, Életünk (Our Life), which Ádám was responsible for founding. In 1967, he began the Magyar Egyházi Tájékoztató, (MET) (Hungarian Church News), a mimeographed news service whose aim is that of keeping Hungarian clerics outside Hungary properly informed. Since 1951, G.Ádám was chairman of the Hungarian School Association^which supports the Hungarian high school founded in Germany in 1945. In his capacity as chairman of the association, Adâm, with the support of the State of Bayern and the Federal
