Archive for August, 2007

Honoring the Martyrs of the 1956 Budapest Uprising

August 31, 2007

I remember listening to Pope Pius XII on the radio when I was eleven years old. On October 23, 1956 he spoke to the nations of the world of the students and workers in Budapest protesting for freedom from Communist Russia. (Since 1945 Moscow controlled and confiscated the wealth of Eastern Europe, including Hungary. The [...]