CHURCHES IN BAVARIA
ALLEGED “ DISTURBING FORCE " EDUCATION MINISTER’S ATTACK Press Association—By Telegraph—Copyright BERLIN, June 28. Herr Wagner, Bavarian Minister of Education, in addressing Nazi functionaries, said that the only organised force disturbing German unity was the churches. Yet they wore financially dependent on the country. The Catholic Church ,in Bavaria had received 140,000,000 marks from the country since 1933. Henceforth revenues would be out down, leaving only the funds agreed upon under the Vatican Concordat, Which amount to one-third of the present total. The remainder would be Used to build schools. “ The church cannot manage, it should be more economical,” Herr Wagner added amid booing from the crowd. “ Archbishop Faulhaber receives 28,950 marks a year and the bishops get 14,000 marks. Those are very decent sums for people who have renounced the world.” # , As Bavaria was previously the_ experimental laboratory for Nazism, it is believed that similar reductions arc foreshadowed throughout Germany.
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Evening Star, Issue 22687, 29 June 1937, Page 9
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152CHURCHES IN BAVARIA Evening Star, Issue 22687, 29 June 1937, Page 9
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