Fraternity-Testvériség, 1960 (38. évfolyam, 1-12. szám)
1960-11-01 / 11. szám
FRATERNITY 11 at hand when they could make their protest and demand their rights with at least some hope of success from their efforts. Moreover, enlightened Roman Catholics were now sufficiently numerous to give them moral support. So the Reformed Church now began publicly to use the slogan: “We do not ask for clemency—we claim our rights!” Especially in the case of “reversal” did they receive the support of enlightened Roman Catholics, who saw in the demands of their own Church a denial of that freedom of conscience and freedom of the individual which the whole of Europe was excitedly discussing in the decade before 1848. The result was that in 1844 a new law was passed, which, while it made no concessions on Louis Kossuth, Leader of the War of Independence (1848) the “reversal” question, ratified as valid a mixed marriage performed before a Protestant minister, simplified conversion from one faith to the other, and did away with the obstacles which the Roman Church had put in the way of those who sought to become members of one of the Protestant Churches. (To be continued)
