CHURCH-STATE WAR
FRESH DEVELOPMENT PAPAL DIPLOMAT EXPELLED <N.Z.P.A.—Copyright) (12.5 p.m.) PRAGUE, March 16. The United Press says that Czechoslovakia has expelled Monsignor Ottavio de Liva, the only liplomat left in the Prague Papal Nunciature, in effect breaking off relations with the Vatican. The move cuts off Czech bishops from the Vatican, and is regarded in church circles as the most serious development yet in the church-State struggle. An official announcement accused Monsignor de Liva, who has been given three days to quit, of interfering in Czech internal affairs, engineering a “miracle” at Cihost, and acting without authority as Papal Charge d’Affaire.s in Prague. Press attacks against Monsignor de Liva began on March 13. f He was accused of organising unrest. Implicated with him were Prague’s Archbishop Beran and another bishop. The press accused all three of faking >a “miracle” of moving, the cross of Cihost “which leaned to the west.”
Father Josef Toufar; Cihost’s priest, was arrested in January. The Government claimed that he implicated Monsignor de Liva and two bishops in his “confession.” a
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Ashburton Guardian, Volume 70, Issue 130, 17 March 1950, Page 3
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