NAZIS AND CHURCH.
REBUKE FROM VATICAN. TREATMENT OF CLERGY. ROME, Feb. 9. The Vatican City newspaper, Osservatore Romano, replying to Herr Hitler’s reference in his Reichstag speech to the possibility of separating the Church from the State, says it would he interesting to learn from Herr Hitler’s lips whether he is willing to retain the liberties enjoyed by the Church in France and America. “The True Cross has been wiped out throughout Germany,” the newspaper says. “The Catholic Press has been silenced and Catholicism has been assailed with a bitterness which does not respect God’s gospel or the Church.
“All who dare to struggle on behalf of the Church are sent to gaol or to concentration camps. The Pope, the bishops, and the clergy are made objects of immoral cartoons in newspapers who are protected by the German Government. The clergy are exposed to contempt by scandalous charges and trials, which are carried out with theatrical publicity such as never was used in similar cases against Nazi Party leaders. “The utmost is being done by persecution to empty the churches ■ and to make priests superfluous.”
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Manawatu Standard, Volume LIX, Issue 69, 18 February 1939, Page 15
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