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PROSPECTS OF CHURCHES WAR AND REVOLUTIONS BISHOP'S OUTSPOKEN VIEWS (Received August 31, 9.10 p.m.) LONDON, August 31 The Bishop of Birmingham, Dr. E. W. Barnes, in the course of a speech at a conference of modern churchmen at Cambridge, said: "The prospects of the churches are gloomy unless is a religious revival or a spiritual outburst. "If there is another war political revolutions will be inevitable. The Spanish
revolution freed popular passion and priests arid churches were attacked with zeal that was obviously spontaneous. There must have been secret, bitter, animosity to the Church as the enehiy of spiritual and material freedom. "When a revolution comes in Italy will the Church escape the same pent-up rage of the people? The Italian Church is the ally, if not the tool, of Fascism. Te Deums are sung ,to celebrate victories over ill-armed Abyssinians by the aeroplanes and the poison gas of 'Catholic' civilisation."
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXIV, Issue 22822, 1 September 1937, Page 13
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