NOT IN QUESTION

Evening Post, Volume CXXV, Issue 82, 7 April 1938, Page 9

NOT IN QUESTION

THE AUSTRIAN DECLARATION

CARDINAL EXPLAINS

(United Press Association—By Electric Telegraph—Copyright.) (Received April 7, 11.30 a.m.)

VATICAN CITY, April 6.

Cardinal Innitzer, Archbishop of Vienna, had an audience of 75 minutes with the Pope who, for the first time, was accompanied by Cardinal Pacelli, i the Papal Secretary. Cardinals and bishops usually see the Pope alone. Before returning to Vienna Cardinal Innitzer made a statement that the declaration by the Austrian bishops in which Roman Catholics were urged to vote "Yes" in the plebiscite, was obviously not intended to be approval of that which was incompatible with the laws of God and the liberties and rights of the Church. The declaration, he said, did not im- j pose a duty of conscience. The Austrian Episcopate demanded that all questions covered by the concordat could not be modified without the Pope's agreement. Parents must retain their educational rights and the Church must not be deprived of the right of propagating faith and moral instruction among youths. Also, antireligious and anti-church propaganda must be prohibited. A cablegram received from Vienna on March 28 stated:—A "solemn declaration" by the Roman Catholic Episcopate which was read in the churches throughout Austria advised Roman Catholics to vote "Yes" at the plebiscite. The declaration states: "We issue this appeal without apprehension, because the Fuhrer's delegate, Herr Buerckel, has informed us that his policy is guided by. the words 'Render unto God that which is God's and unto Caesar that which is Caesar's.'"