Katolikus Szemle 9. (1957, Róma)

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SUMMARY This summer issue of the KATOLIKUS SZEMLE begins with a poem written in the prison of Vác, by a young Hungarian poet and fighter for freedom, Tibor Tollas. The poem relates the story of twenty cherries brought to one of the prisoners, who offered them to his companions, but nobody touched them: instead they became a symbol of life and freedom, and they established a sort of spiritual communion and bond of charity among the prisoners so that they felt Christ had visited the prison. The Hungarian October Revolution, the greatest event of our recent national history, which will have an important influence also on the further political life and development of the world, remains the centre of our attention. László Feketekuty, in his historico-political study, compares the two Hungarian revolutions of 1848 and of 1956, showing that both of them had wide national character and they were not class-revolutions. In both cases the revolution succeeded in overthrowing the government which served foreign interests, but did not succeed in gaining freedom for the nation agamst the military forces of the enemy. Károly HIatky recalls a characteristic detail of the fighting during the Revolution in Budapest: how small groups of fighters for freedom held up Russian forces around the Castle of Buda and, when the main forces arrived, how the groups, composed mostly of youngsters, disappeared. Another article of Pál Gábor gives interesting details of the fighting around the famous Kilian barracks. Tibor Hanák, in the second part of his analysis of the so-called Marxist Humanism, explains the antihumanistic nature of this doctrine, as it appears in the individual and social life of a Marxist state. Sensing the sufferings of our Hungarian people at home as well as in emigration, Fr. Tibor Horváth S.J. considers in the light of divine Revelation the Christian sense of suffering. We are translating also the famous prayer of Pascal and letters of Emmanuel Mounier and Leon Bloy showing how we have to participate in the sufferings of Christ. We are also printing a remarkable short story of Vera Vásárhelyi illustrating the psychological attitude of the child in the face of death, and verses of Erzsébet Kisjókai and of Béla H. László. In the rest of the number we give the text of the Easter allocution of the Pope, and a synthesis of his doctrine of the using of narcotics for the relief of suffering. Fr. Engelbert Sarlós O. S. B. honors the great Hungarian scientist, Ányos Jedlik, also a Benedictine, who a hundred years ago, before Siemens, constructed the first dynamo. Dénes Nemestóthy's commentary on the world policy, and Emerich Gácsér's of the Congress of Christian Democrats in Arezzo as well as various Church news and book reviews complete this issue. KIADÓHIVATALUNKBAN BESZEREZHETŐ KÖNYVEK DÁM INCE: A Szeplőtelen Fogantatás vé­delme Magyarországon a Hunyadiak és Jagellók korában. - Ára: 50 cent. TÓTH LÁSZLÓ: A Jánus-arcú jelenkori magyar irodalom. - Ára: 20 cent. MIHÁLYI GILBERT: Európa válsága és megmentése. - Ára 1 $. KISJÓKAI ERZSÉBET: A gyertyáknak égni kell. Regény. - Ára. 2 $. KISJÓKAI ERZSÉBET: Áldott bilincs. Versek. - Ára: 50 cent. VECSEY LAJOS: Hunyadi. - Ára: 2.50 $. VECSEY LAJOS: Az Imádságok bullája és a déli harangszó. Latin-magyar kiadás. - Ára: 50 cent. CSIKY ÁGNES MÁRIA: Megálló a to­ronynál. Regény. - Ára: 40 cent. DÉLAM ERIKAI MAGYAR HÍRLAP ÉV­KÖNYVE 1957. - Ára: 1.50 $. ACTIO CATHOLICA HUNGARORUM in EXTERIS ROMA KATOLIKUS SZEMLE Redattore ed Editoré Responsabile: ALBERTO AMBRO Tipografia Dario Detti - Via Girolamo Savonarola, 1 - Tel. 375.009 - Roma

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