Hungarian Heritage Review, 1990 (19. évfolyam, 1-12. szám)
1990-01-01 / 1. szám
speak not only for myself, but others too. Why should we always knock against the wall of silence? This wall is much more massive and impenetrable than, say, the Berlin wall, and I feel that somebody has to begin opening a gap in it. The other thing which induced me to take this step to be heard is not really new. In fact, I have carried this activity on for the past six years in public and in secret, conspicuously and in conceal-' ment. As a Minister, I feel responsible for my people as one erf their spiritual leaders. This personal responsibility is all the more heavy because most of my fellow ministers are silent. I am a Minister of the Reformed Church in Romania (Transylvania). The clergy and, in particular, the Bishops of my Church, fall in behind the policy which has, among others, produced the bewildering plan of village destruction. Just imagine, gentlemen, when we submitted a petition to the Bishops to support the cause of the villages, all of us who had spoken up against it were summoned to the Bishop’s office where a police inspector was present too. Bishop László Papp eloquently argued in favor of the plan to destroy our villages and even said that it would be advantageous for us if some congregations were dissolved and the population resettled! ‘It does not matter if the churches are pulled down,’ he said, Tor it is not the stones that matter, but the services held there.’ Then, to our Senior he said: ‘Senior, even though the Reformed Church in Arad is pulled down, people could still pray in meeting houses in the outskirts of the town. Therefore, we should not mind it.’ (EDITOR’S NOTE: When one takes into serious consideration the policy of diplomacy adopted by the Catholic Church in Hungary in compliance with the greatly misunderstood one promulgated by the Vatican ever since the end of World War II and the incredible “sell-out” of East Central Europe - the very “heart” of the Continent of Europe - to “good old uncle Joe” Stalin, the position assumed by Bishop László Papp, and as stated by the Reverend Tőkés, becomes more understandable • even though unacceptable to us who are fortunate enough to live in freedom. There are two maxims guiding American politics and politicians, for example, and these are: “to get along, go along” and that politics is “the art of the possible”. In the cases of the Catholic Church and the Reformed Church in Hungary, a Hungarian-style version of these axioms seems to have worked. Both have miraculously survived the aggressive animosity of a communist-ruled government and now look forward to a great revival of religious fervor. As quietly referred to by the new Cardinal Primate of Hungary, László Paskai, at a reception held in his honor f ollowing the Mass he celebrated at Our Lady of Mt. Carmel Hungarian RtC. Church in Woodbridge, New Jersey, during his recent tour of the United States and which-we attended, the Church in Hungary has outlived communist oppression with the help of the divine interventions of God, the Patron Saint of Hungary, and St. Stephen. Given more time, the same is bound to happen not only in Romanian-oppressed Transylvania, but also throughout Romania itself. One of the reasons why the “Hungarian Heritage Review” is convinced of this, is a book. We have in our reference library a book entitled “Russia Will Be Converted” by John M. Haffert that was published in 1950, under the Imprimatur of the late Bishop of Trenton, the Most Reverend George W. Ahr, by the AMI International Press of New York, Washington (New Jersey), and London, which not only predicts the liberation of religion throughout the communist world, but which has also been absolutely accurate in predicting the course of world and human events right up to the present time and beyond. This rare book is based upon the secret messages conveyed by Our Lady during the “Miracle of Fatima”, in Portugal, on May 13, 1917, that was witnessed by more than 100,000 people, actually photographed, and published in the European Press.- continued next page JANUARY 1990 HUNGARIAN HERfTAGE REVIEW 11
