Ratzinger accused

THE Hungarian Basic Christian community leader Fr Gyorgy Bulanyi has asked the Prefect of the Vatican's Sacred Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith, Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger, to help counter attempts by the Hungarian bishops to misrepresent his views during their forthcoming Ad Limina visit to Rome.
Bulanyi also protested to Cardinal Ratzinger against his sanction of the publication last June of his letter condemning "church order" in the Hungarian Catholic press without first obtaining assurances from the Hungarian authorities that he would be allowed to respond in the media of the country (Catholic Herald July 19). The Basic Community leader complained that he had been barred for decades by the state and the bishops from expressing his views in the media while being subjected to vilification by the official Church press.
This practice, he said, is "scarcely fitting for a church of Jesus Christ". Bulanyi claimed that the publication of Ratzinger's letter served to "incite" the new Hungarian primate, Archbishop Laszlo Peskai, to intensify the pressure against him and his followers.