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Four Franciscan missionaries from the Friary of St. Wenoeslas, in Broumov, near the Czech-Polish border, have left Czechoslovakia and another will leave soon.
These missionaries, all Americans, were required to leave the country under the provision of the new Church law which forbids anybody but Czechoslovak citizens to act as priests or ministers. Thirty-eight out of 39 Mormon missionaries have already been sent back.
" CONFESSION" A Czech priest who is alleged to have confessed to staging the " Miracle of the Moving Cross " in a little Bohemian town will be put on trial, according to Monday's issue of the Prague newspaper Svohodne Slow,
The Czech Minister of the Interior, Vaclav Nosek, at a Press conference to which Western correspondents were not invited. said that }-r. Josef Toufar had confessed to his part in the " miracle " in his church in Cihost, Bohemia. Although the, trial has yet to commence the paper declared that " Fr. Toufar knows he will he punished."
The alleged miracle was first reported in Communist newspapers in January.
Nosck stated that several people who helped to arrange the " miracle " had been arrested and added : " They include servants in the pay of high Catholic clergy."
He added that the mechanical process by means of which Fr. Toufar is alleged to have staged the " miracle " has been reconstructed and a film of it will be shown in Czech cinemas.
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