When Pope Paul VI gave us Evangelii Nuntiandi, he did one thing which can sound like beating around the bush to some people. He is very general and abstract in his document, which might be why people would experience that. To me, this quote from the document is a very good example: >1. There is no doubt that the effort to proclaim the Gospel to the people of today, who are buoyed up by hope but at the same time often oppressed by fear and distress, is a service rendered to the Christian community and also to the whole of humanity. > >For this reason the duty of confirming the brethren - a duty which with the office of being the Successor of Peter we have received from the Lord, and which is for us a "daily preoccupation," a program of life and action, and a fundamental commitment of our Pontificate - seems to us all the more noble and necessary when it is a matter of encouraging our brethren in their mission as evangelizers, in order that, in this time of uncertainty and confusion, they may accomplish this task with ever increasing love, zeal and joy. Why did the Church make the decision to be very abstract and general in her communication in Evangelii Nuntiandi?

Pope Paul VI wrote in his 1974 Apostolic Exhortation [*Marialis Cultus*](https://www.vatican.va/content/paul-vi/en/apost_exhortations/documents/hf_p-vi_exh_19740202_marialis-cultus.html) (paragraph 54): > But there is no doubt that, after the celebration of the Liturgy of the Hours, the high point which family prayer can reach, the Rosary should be considered as one of the best and most efficacious prayers in common that the Christian family is invited to recite. ... Does this mean that he thought that the Rosary is more important than the daily examen?

József Mindszenty was appointed Primate of Hungary and Archbishop of Esztergom in 1945. There existed a mutual animosity between him and the Hungarian government, which culminated in his imprisonment for treason, and later his confinement for many years at the American embassy as a political asylee. Pope Paul VI eventually secured a deal that permitted him to leave the embassy in exchange for exile from Hungary. In 1973, While Mindszenty was in exile, Paul VI supposedly pressured him to voluntarily resign the primacy and archbishopric. When that did not work, he unilaterally stripped Mindszenty of his titles. However, he refused to appoint a successor to the vacant offices. This raises the following questions: Why did Paul VI want Mindszenty to give up his offices? Was this simply a matter of him being unable to effectively discharge his duties while in exile? If so, what was the point of leaving the offices vacant? If it was rather a purely political move aimed at placating the Hungarian authorities, why did the latter not include this condition in the original deal? Did the Church ever publish an official reason for relieving Mendszenty of his titles? (I wasn't sure whether it was more appropriate to ask this question here or on the [History Stack Exchange](https://history.stackexchange.com/) , but as our own [tour](https://christianity.stackexchange.com/tour) solicits questions about "the history of denominations (such as Roman Catholic…)" I thought I'd try here first.)