Evening star., 1951-04-06
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lie church. He glanced across tn,
|8-by-14 cell to three-shelf book
case stocked mostly with nj!
church's literature. He has stopped
writing "for the moment becaus.
my typewriter is temporaril.
broken down."
I He reported the prison food h,
receives is good" that he ha'
no complaint generally about tn,
treatment he receives from prison
authorities, that he receives books
from outside, although they mus
pass through prison censorship
He said he Is receiving all the
Yugoslav newspapers which othel
priests read "but 7 am not inter.
ested in them. I would like tt
obtain foreign Catholic newspapers
if possible" For physical exercise
he cleans his own rooms. takes
daily walks within the prison
walls
81 can read my Mass" he said
"I have the opportunity Of COM
munion and confession. The
priests in the prison are helpful
But I wish the Catholics in the
prison had the opportunity, of OBJ
tanning the last rites of the
church.
In response to a question, the
archbishop said he has received nc
visits from outside representatives
of the church for three years. In
1916 he was visited by the Pope's
lnuncio twice. During the same
year he saw three bishops.
Then the inquiries turned to
spiritual matters and his opinion
of the current relations between
the church and the state.
/ @. There have been many
changes in world affairs, Msgr.
Stepinac. since you entered here.
Yugoslavia no longer is on friendly
terms with the Soviet Union. Its
foreign policy is based largely
upon cooperation with the West
on terms of equal rights" As a
high Catholic churchman and as
Yugoslav citizen, do you feel
that reconsideration of your case
through the Vatican and Marshal
Tito's government would be in the
interests of the church, of the
state. and of creating good will
among Catholics here and abroad? i?
A. 1t is in the interests of both
the state and the church, as I said
during my trial. This is the nu-
cleus of the whole question. The
Catholic church cannot be en-
slaved by any state. The church
has spiritual functions, the state
has material functions. The con-
hict is an abnormal state of af-
fairs. There is no possibility of
Isubduing the Catholic church.
That is only an illusion and,
sooner or later, it can only have
the wrong result.
@. Is there any compromise
which you might suggest in your
case which might prove acceptable
to both the church and the state?
A None personally. That is up
to the Holy See. The most i'm
portant points were outlined in
pastoral letter issued before I was
arrested.
Lists Five Vital Points.
Then the archbishop listed "off-
hand" five points upon which he
said the Catholic church should
and would insist. They were:
/. The right of Catholic parents
to educate their children in their
own faith.
2. The Catholic church will
never accept obligatory civil mar
riage ceremonies.
3. It will accept civil rites guar
anteed by the state. provided that
religious ceremony has been per-
formed.
4. Freedom of the Catholic
press.
S. Freedom for church work.
One manifestation of such charity
is the $50 million help to Yugo-
slavia from the United States to
prevent starvation resulting from
last years drought.
Then he added:
But this problem should be
studied. It's up to the Holy See.
For the last 80 years, the question
of the Catholic church has not
been satisfactorily solved.
Human dignities and human
freedoms should be maintained"
@. AS the spiritual guide for
Yugoslavia's Roman Catholic pop