1948
We teach that it is proper to render unto Caesar the things that are Caesar’s and to God the things that are God’s. But when Caesar sits himself on the altar, we respond curtly: he may not. —Cardinal Stefan Wyszyński, 1953 By the end of 1948, the Eastern European communist parties and their Soviet allies had already enacted enormous changes…
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