EXCOMMUNICATION THREAT
Rec. 9 p.m. PRAGUE, May 25. Archbishop Josef Reran, head of Czechoslovakia’s 9,000,000 Catholics, threatened to excommunicate Catholics who helped the Communist Government in anti-church activity. He demanded that the State stop publishing what it calls the “Official Catholic Gazette.” The Archbishop, whom the Nazis forced to sweep the streets in Prague and imprisoned in, Dachau concentration camp, said in a letter to the head of the People’s Party, Mr Alois Petr, and other Catholics, that they must know as Catholics that they would excommunicate themselves by being accomplices in anti-church acts.
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Otago Daily Times, Issue 27091, 27 May 1949, Page 5
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94EXCOMMUNICATION THREAT Otago Daily Times, Issue 27091, 27 May 1949, Page 5
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