Tárogató, 1949-1950 (12. évfolyam, 1-12. szám)
1949-07-01 / 1-2. szám
16 TÁROGATÓ substituted a concocted one; the concocted charge would not impress anyone who used his head, because its Russiandictated propaganda-character was only too transparent: a Cardinal must be found guilty of subversive activities (this was meant for the Pope, who was and still is the greatest enemy of any totalitarian terror, including the red one); in this cold war the U.S.A. must be incriminated, hence Mr. Seiden Chapin must be incriminated. The Cardinal was an antisemite (the opposite was proved); was on good terms with the Nazis (who imprisoned him because he was their “friend”); acted against democracy in Hungary (where it does not exist); tried to overthrow the Republic (that is, tried to defeat the Red Army with his weaponless fellowship of legitimists); and when the legitimists realized that they might not be strong enough, tried to mobilize the U.S.A. through Mr. Seiden Chapin. The fact that the Cardinal admitted so-called “crimes” which he could not have committed, is a chapter of psychiatry which needs more careful experimental study on the changes of character resulting when the person in question is submitted to communist policemethods. Until then, no judgment can be passed. The lesson derived from this Trial is a conviction which has been expressed by thoughtful people in many countries and immediately shouted down as a reactionary, fascist, capitalistic, subversive spirit by communists and their fellow-travellers: namely, there can be no understanding between those whose Weltanschauung is based on the Marxist-Leninist-Stalinist dogma and those whose Weltanschauung is based on belief in God and His Sovereignty over the world. There can be no understanding between true democracy, which is based on the idea of God who prescribes that we must live for the welfare of our fellowmen, and that pseudo-democracy of totalitarianism which regards people as tools of its power-extension. This does not mean that we seek war, because evil cannot be eradicated with the means of evil. We seek peace and pray for it and try to realize God’s ends with God’s means. We do so because we know that God cannot be defeated .. In concluding my address I should like to add a consoling thought which may act like a ray of light in the dark picture of the Mindszenty case. Cases like that of Cardinal Mindszenty and similar cases may attain a Providential result. The camp of believers may become conscious of the fundamental unity which is valid for its members in spite of separating differences. The greater the pressure from the outside, the more these people will be interdependent for the sake of preserving their values, without which life does not prove worth living. Hence this unity may be made the primary motif of their defence and not a more-or-less acknowledged additional idea as it is to-day. I say “additional idea”, because after we have started to fight against the common enemy, we seem to realize that it is indeed common, so why not fight arm in arm? Why not give more attention to our basic unity? Why not strive for unity regardless of whether or not we have to defend ourselves? It will be a second Pentecost when this idea of basic unity of those who are dependent on Christ becomes transformed into an effort toward bringing closer its realization. Our prayer which we utter every Sunday for the catholic Church will be fulfilled by the fact of One Church, and believing mankind will more fully obey the Second Commandment. And if our faith reveals a deepening of our morality, a coming nearer to one another, a joining hands instead of shaking fists, then those in the other camp will recognize the good tree by its fruits. It was martyrdom which made possible that which seemed impossible: to conquer a pagan world and make it a follower of Christ; this new martyrdom may likewise produce a new consolidation and strength in the Church. And then we, or our sons or grandsons, will humbly bow before God who accepted the sacrifice of His servants in order that there may be more and more sincere brotherhood among those who, believing the word of the Son of God, have called themselves brothers but have acted as if they did not know one another.
