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/The Catholic Churchb * ++ *Nazi Scapegoat Number TwoExcerpts frbin Article bjr S. K. Pfcdover in The ForutnFrom day to day. the Catholics Aspect the worst; 'Hits very uti-certaluty as to your future,” the Bavarian Minister of Education told a delegation of listers, Is your pun-iShmeht, ahd It pleases me to keep you Ln Ike dark.”Tile next steps will be economic. Txxfc ffbm the Jews lias helped to fill the ehipty coffers df the Kaala ehd keep the regime rmknhig. That source Is rapidly becoming exhausted. Ciilholld ft-apebty u sliu largely ttitact* The Nazis have alreadydrasVn up lists of all the conventsand monasteries and their possessions (there are over ten thousand such establishments in Germany, thousands more in Austria). There arc no available figures on the extent of Ihe corporate wealth of tile Church, but, twenty billion dollars may be a safe eslhnrite. 'Hie Nazisrire keeping- this enormous resoldc* ih reserve; \vh6n they have destroyed Catholic tnorale, Chhbch properly wiki be confiscated with a thorough * liess and bhllalily Uiat Will again shock the World.Why Is t)u* conItlet between Nazi* fcm and CauidZJttfm I rreconc liable? Therfc are fire Reasons. First, Nazi1-fefcii la ilseif a religion, an impassioned, crUsadlng faith with all the vigor bf new reilgloris. it call brook ho other gods. The -second reason growa out of this; the » hate Chtlstiahlty because It Is Jewish and Catholicism because it is- ihterna-tlehsl. Cethdliclfiin claims the loyalties of tiilllifms of people, especially the yoiihtf, who are uhder the sway of a foreign potentate (as the Nazis View it); that is a third tea*Thus Whllhelrti Teudfc edited thfe Psalms. altd eliminated all Orlehtal exaggerations.0 Here is a sample, teift the Eighty-seventh Pa aim:King Janie*’ VersionThe Lord lovriJi the gates of Zion more than all the dwellings of Jacob.I wiil make mention of Rahab abd Babylon to them that know me- behold Plillist-la and Tyre, will! Ethiopia; this ihh was born there,Ilerr Teudl’s Version The Lord tovcth the yew tree of the OdemvaJd and the oak uf the Baltic.Behold the lands of the Goths, the Langobavdrjj and Andalusians; it shah be said our brethren were born and dlEd there.Almost six years of anti-Catholic propaganda have done their work, Catholic families have been split by the Incessant storm of criticism and ridicule;. Catholic children have broken from tin* faith, imnfete id stand the barrage oj mockery and hostility. As fir. back as 1836, priests in the Rhineland admitted privately that onc-hnif their flock was already lost. The percentage is undoubtedly eveit higher today.If the Nazis i om a In In pb-Wer for another decade (ahd there seems to be nothing to stop them), Cath* oIIcLerl—anrt, with it, all chHstttm* ty—may be obliterated In Germany. The Protestant churches, by vlHilfc of thefr government-coiltrolLel organization .and traditional obedl-PltrA f fhn r*nlt;-. 1 ..-.n
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Lethbridge Herald
Lethbridge, Alberta, CA
Tue, Feb 28, 1939
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