Abandoned by the Vatican: My Clandestine Journey to Support Secret Priests Behind the Iron Curtain
A Nonfiction, History book. When the Iron Curtain came down from Russia, Czechoslovakia and other countries were trapped...
ABANDONED BY THE VATICAN (An Analytical Memoir)By Jack DohertyMy Clandestine Journey to Support Secret Priests Behind the Iron CurtainIf you love gripping intrigue and adventure and hate betrayal and hypocrisy, you’ll be both rewarded and disgusted by reading Abandoned by the Vatican.Accompany the author as he crosses over the Iron Curtain, the dead man’s land of mine fields, electrified fences and shooting fields. He prowls through the back alleys of Prague dodging the communist security police to meet secret priests waiting to tell the story of their years in prison and concentration camps, their interrogation and torture, hunger, hard labor, and now a life sentence as ex-convicts. In their atheistic police state the secret priests and their underground churches try to preserve basic human values and morals by their example. The 1968 Prague Spring reaction to Russian oppressive rule over its satellite countries brings a few years of limited freedom. Asked what they need? “News, information, books about our Catholic faith,” they reply.On another trip behind the Iron Curtain the author meets more secret priests in dilapidated huts, state-built...
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Abandoned by the Vatican is a quite different book that I normally read. The book is on a strong and touchy subject of religion, its traditions and behavior of the Vaticans, its popes, cardinals and its bishops. It brings to highlight the facts that you may not necessarily know about religious places and people involved. I must say... As a true history buff, and having studied WWII and history of the 20th century Europe, I always look forward to discovering new books that would educate me in the spheres which Im still unfamiliar with. Abandoned by the Vatican was definitely one of those very well-written and incredibly informative books.Its a first person account... When the Iron Curtain came down from Russia, Czechoslovakia and other countries were trapped within the isolation of communism. The Catholic churches were destroyed, and the priests were sent to gulags for years of torture on the whim of an atheist government. Years later, the priests who survived returned to Czech or Poland or other...
