Katolikus Szemle 21. (1969, Róma)
4. szám - ESZMÉK ÉS MŰVEK - Tóth László: Hazátlan rozmaring - Várady Imre: Eszterlánc
SUMMARY In this Christmas issue of the KATOLIKUS SZEMLE we publish selections from an up-to-date presentation of our faith, written by Fr. Ferenc Szabó, S. J. In the next five years Hungarians at home and abroad celebrate the millennium of the birth of St. Stephen, first king and apostle of Hungary. József Közi Horváth takes this opportunity to discuss the debated question: whom does the famous mediaeval statue of the «Bamberger Reiter» represent? Considering the personal relationship of St. Stephan with Bamberg, and his traditional veneration in that city, the author concludes that the statue represents the knightly and saintly Hungarian king. Last year there was a considerable change in the situation of the large Hungarian minorities in Czecho-Slovakia, in Rumania and in Jugoslavia. István Révay, an expert on minority problems in the Danube Valley, continues the study he began in our preceding issue, this time reviewing the facts of this change in our neighbouring countries and the actual policy, in this matter, of the Hungarian Communist Government. This year we have been publishing various chapters of a history of the Church in the Hungarian Soviet Republic of 1919. The author, Sándor Jankovich, now tells us about the Bolshevik provocations against the Church, and of the special difficulties met by Cardinal János Csernoch, Archibishop of Esztergom, Primate of Hungary, during this period. Beginning with the eighteenth century, theatre had a great formative influence on Hungarian society. Tibor Dénes, in an interesting essay, follows this influence through its different stages up to the present time. A new anthology of Hungarian poetry, collecting works of fourteen young poets who left our country after 1956, is reviewed and illustrated with some samples by László Tóth. Also in this issue we report on the second Synod of Bishops held last October in Rome, on facts of discrimination and oppressive Church policy of the Hungarian Government, and on the new papal document on the pastoral care of emigrants. A commemoration by Béla Biró of Friedrich Overbeck, a religious painter who died houndred years ago, and of his Hungarian followers, a review of Stanley L. Jaki's work, « The Relevance of Physics», and other book reviews conclude this issue.