CRITICISM OF POPE

Waikato Times, Volume 195, Issue 22460, 22 September 1944, Page 3

CRITICISM OF POPE

BISHOP’S FRANK COMMENT LONDON, Sept. 20 Attacking the Pope’s recent utterances that Londoners should show tne Christian sentiments of charity, forgiveness and mercy to the Germans,’ the Bishop of Chelmsford, Dr. Henry Wilson, states in the Chelmsford Diocesan Chronicle:—

“It is difficult to remember a single word from the Pope in condemnation of the Nazis when they swept London with destruction. The plain fact is that Vatican politics are antidemocratic. The best interests of the Church, according to the Roman view, are served by a Government approximating to 3 dictatorship, particularly if, as in Spain, the dictator is a Roman Catholic. “There is widespread uneasiness, rightly or wrongly, lest the Vatican authorities should succeed in having a sajs in the peace settlement. Several recent incidents have roused these fears. One of the surest ways to lose the peace would be to permit the dubious counsels of Vatican diplomatists to have any hand in the business.”