POPE AND PAGANISM
HITLERISM DENOUNCED
GERMANY'S TRAGEDY
VATICAN CITY, February 24. The Pope, apropos of tho canonisation of threo priests, one* of whom was a German, sternly-denounces Hitlerism, saying that'tho lives of these saints is a warning against a movement which wishes the world return to ■ paganism with its ancient horrors. : '
Tho Pope adds that the great and noblo German -people is at a tragic moment in its history,. tragic because the menace of great evils is always terrible. ''It is a moment of exaltation of thoughts, ideas, and practices neither Christian nor human; and of pride of race producing a pride of life far removed from the spirit of Christianity and humanity."
The Pope also denounced Protestant propaganda in Italy as causing grievous spiritual harnvand offenco'to the Divino •■ Redeemer, Who suffered much through it.
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Evening Post, Volume CXVII, Issue 48, 26 February 1934, Page 9
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