HITLER AND THE VATICAN

Press, Volume LXXIII, Issue 22111, 5 June 1937, Page 15

HITLER AND THE VATICAN

* Diplomatic Rupture Feared attack by u.s. PRELATE ’ I) NAZI INSULTS TO CATHOLIC FAITH (tnflTin PRESS’ ASSOCIATION—COPYRIGHT.) (Received June's, 12.15 a.m.) LONDON, June 4. The Vatican City correspondent of foe "Daily Telegraph” says that Cardinal Pacelli (Secretary of State to the Pope), replying to Herr Hitler’s second protest about the attack by .Cardinal Mundelein, of Chicago, reiterates that the Pope refuses to reprimand the Cardinal. The Pope emphasises that the German Government has not taken steps to prevent insulting attacks by German Ministers on the Rftnan Catholic religion. The Pope points out that when Cardinal Mundelein referred to Herr Hitler as a former paperhanger he was expressing his personal opinion, for which the Vatican cannot be responsible. Although a diplomatic rupture between the Pope and Herr Hitler is now feared, the inevitable initiative will be left to Berlin. Cardinal- Mundelein, Roman Catholic Archbishop of Chicago, asked ,in a recent address how a nation of 60,000,000 intelligent people could submit in fear and servitude to an alien Austrian paperhanger and a few associates like Dr. Goebbels and General Goering. The Cardinal intimated that the charges against monks and nuns in Germany were simply propaganda. Dr. Goebbels, Nazi Minister for Propaganda, later issued a warning that drastic steps would be taken igainst high dignitaries of the toman Catholic Church, if Cathoics continued to criticise the “morally drials” proceeding in Germany. The German Government protested o the Vatican.