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Offline Ladislaus

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Re: In Memory of Thuc by Gerard des Lauriers
« Reply #40 on: January 12, 2024, 05:06:05 PM »
Quote from: Persto on January 12, 2024, 04:58:24 PM
At the time he accused me of pocketing the millions that Saigon had lent for reforestation.

Suuuuure, that's why Archbishop Thuc couldn't afford just the rent at a dirty little apartment while working as a parish priest and then moved to a similar apartment in Parish ... because he pocketed millions.

Montini deposed him from his See for being anti-Communist (just like he did with Cardinal Mindszenty) and replaced him with a Commie sympathizer.
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« Reply #41 on: January 12, 2024, 05:25:40 PM »
In his Autobiography +Thuc talks about the very meager means he had to provide for his flock. He accomplished most of his building projects:  seminaries, residences, and University, by acquiring useless pieces of property that nobody wanted like sandy barren land, swampy land,land in the boonies, and an old Saigon cemetery that everybody used as a latrine due to lack of public restrooms. He was then able to turn these properties around and make them work for his projects. Also, it was not his idea to build a Catholic University, Rome ordered it. The country was impoverished, and no other Bishop would take on the project, so he volunteered, not knowing how it would be accomplished, solely trusting in prayer and God's Providence.
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« Reply #42 on: January 12, 2024, 05:56:54 PM »
Quote from: Ladislaus on January 12, 2024, 05:06:05 PM
Montini deposed him from his See for being anti-Communist (just like he did with Cardinal Mindszenty) and replaced him with a Commie sympathizer.
Excerpt from +Thuc Autobiography (Chapter3):

Terrified by my threat of taking this story to the Roman court, Mgr Diên then asked me for forgiveness. There we have the sincerity of this excellent friend of Paul VI, the Pope, who had forced me to resign before the legal deadline so that Mgr. Diên would be named the Archbishop of Hué and could exercise his practice of extending a hand to the Communists in order to undermine the Saigon government. 
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« Reply #43 on: January 12, 2024, 07:27:41 PM »
Excerpt from Autobiography of +Thuc (Chapter 4):

My presence at the council far away from Vietnam saved my life. Otherwise, I would have been murdered like my three brothers, the president Diêm, Nhu and Cân.  While my colleagues from South Vietnam returned to Vietnam after the council’s conclusion, the Americans forced the South Vietnamese into refusing my return visa.  Frankly said, there was no reason to refuse this return:  The Vietnamese Embassy asked me to be patient while it conferred with the government in Saigon. I waited some months and turned to the Holy Father for help that permission would be granted so that I could return.

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« Reply #44 on: January 12, 2024, 07:31:29 PM »
Excerpt from the Autobiography of +Thuc (Chapter 4):

  I do not know what the Holy Father Paul VI did, but he used the situation that I could not return to my diocese in Hué, to force me into abdication and appoint his favourite, Mgr. Dién, in my place.
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