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Article: The Catholic Church in Hungary.(FATHER LASZLO MAGA)
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- Catholic Insight
- Article date:
- September 1, 2008
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The Hungarian bishops were received by Pope Benedict XVI in May 2008 at their five-yearly ad limina visit to the Vatican. The Pope seemed aware of many of Fr. Maga's concerns such as lack of priests and the effects of secularization, with the same symptoms as other Western countries. In Hungary's case, this was exacerbated by long years of Communist rule which left people unable to trust. Now they are afflicted with the "thoughtless consumerism of the West". "The Church, he urged the prelates, "must certainly be a teacher, but always and above all a mother, so as to favour.... reciprocal trust and hope." Pointing to more positive aspects, he said, Catholicism remained ...