WAR AGAINST CHRISTIANITY

Pahiatua Herald, Volume XLXI, Issue 15074, 20 June 1942, Page 3

WAR AGAINST CHRISTIANITY

RAGING IN GERMANY (British Official Wireless.) RUGBY, June 18. ‘‘We wisli particularly to stress that rve are not only asking for religious rights but also for th e ordinary rights of Mankind. Without these the whole system of Western culture must collapse,” states an outspoken Roman Catholic pastoral latter recently read from German, pulpits and now available in London. The pastoral referred to the war against Christianity which “lie; like a horrible nightmare on Germany.” The pastoral states that a battle against Christianity is r aging i n Germany and has increased in bitterness during the war. Catholicism is being Squeezed out of the public life altogether and its observance inside the churches is extremely limited and greatly suppressed. It asserts that the youth organisations are turning the youth of the country against Christianity. The Catholic press has been destroyed, schools and churches closed and priests banished. The bishops insist on the rights of personal freedom and consideration for the common good and duty to tile just commands of lawful authority and demand the release of all who without evidence have been robbed of their liberty and the return of church property. The pastoral adds that Nazi activities have been designed to kill the Catholic Church while the men are at war