A Catholic press interview-based feature on the persecution of the Catholic Church in communist Czechoslovakia, covering the finding that almost half the country's priests and religious were imprisoned or sent to labor camps after 1948; the 1951 execution on fabricated charges of priests Jan Bula, Vaclav Drbola and Frantisek Paril; the 1950 beating death in State Security custody of Father Josef Toufar; and the Vatican's 1949 grant of the so-called Mexican faculty permitting the secret consecration of bishops without Rome's prior consent, the mechanism the underground church used to keep its hierarchy alive. Its strength is naming specific, individually documented victims rather than only aggregate figures; its limit is that it does not address Action K or Action R by name.
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Publication Year URLhttps://www.catholicworldreport.com/2017/05/19/catholics-in-communist-czechoslovakia-a-story-of-persecution-and-perseverance/ 1 Assessment
Reliability TierCatholic press feature drawing on an interview with a scholar of the period, tier 3. Used for its named individual victims and the secret-consecration mechanism, neither given by the other two sources. Sources
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- Religious Events, 7 claims: 6 well-attested, 1 general references.
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