NAZIS DEFIED

New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXIII, Issue 22346, 18 February 1936, Page 11

NAZIS DEFIED

CHURCH LEADERS ARCHBISHOP'S SPEECH PERSECUTION DENOUNCED COURAGEOUS OUTBURST By Telegraph—Presß Association—Copyright (Received February 17, 5.5 p.m.) LONDON. Feb. 16 The Daily Telegraph's Berlin correspondent discloses the fact that Count von Galen, Roman Catholic Archbishop of Munster, last Sunday made the most courageous and most outspoken denunciation of Nazi persecution yet heard in Germany. "To what insults and abuse are the Church, the Pope, bishops and members of sacred orders exposed, while those responsible go unpunished V' said the archbishop. "How many Catholics have been reviled and driven from their professions, imprisoned without trial and physically mishandled 1 ?" Count von Galen referred to the incarceration without trial of Canon Banasoh, chief of the Berlin episcopal service, and Monsignor Wolker, leader of the Catholic Young Men's Associations.

Another message from Berlin states that Pastor Jacobi openly defied the Nazis, when, in spite of an official prohibition, he preached to an overflowing congregation in the presence of 50 berobed Evangelical pastors on either side of the altar. A despatch from Munich says the population gave an ovation to Cardinal Faulhaber, Archbishop of Munich, on the occasion of the celebration of the silver jubilee of his consecration as a bishop. Bells were rung and throngs paraded the streets. Mothers held up their children for the Cardinal's blessing.