NAZI DECREES
AGAINST THE CHURCH
SEVERE HANDICAPS
(Received' December 14, 2.40 p.m.)
LONDON, December 13,
The Vatican City correspondent of the Exchange Telegraph Company says that although the Nazi measures against the Catholic Church have not yet been published the gist of them is known. -They are reported to provide that the relations between the Church and the State are no longer governed by the Concordat but by the laws of the Reich; that processions and pilgrimages are forbidden; that sermons based on communications between the Pope and Bishops must be submitted to the Reich authorities in advance; and that a religious order in which any member is convicted of immorality will be dissolved * and have its property confiscated. Other decrees are understood to severely handicap religious orders and to forbid priests baptising Jews. The Pope is preparing a reply to the decrees, which are at present before the legal authorities.
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Evening Post, Volume CXXVI, Issue 143, 14 December 1938, Page 10
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