Word: anti-christian
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...With the fall of Barcelona, for years the most poisonous anti-Christian centre in the world, the war in Spain approaches its conclusion. No one save those whose loyalty to Moscow is certain will regret the end of the conflict. . . . Making Barcelona, formerly the centre of anarchism and antiChrist, the capital of a Christian nation will do much to restore sanity to the world...
...Hitler-Franco treaty appeared to put the Franco imprimatur upon the works of Alfred Rosenberg, Germany's pagan, anti-Christian ideologist, and upon the Völkischer Beobachter, which has sounded the Nazi tocsin against Catholicism "until the point of total annihilation." If enforced, the treaty would suppress in Spain the Vatican's Osservatore Romano, which has called Hitler "anti-Christ," the Pope's encyclical With Burning Sorrow, which denounced Nazi racialist principles. In short, the terms of the treaty were directly at variance with a Franco pledge, cited last week by Jesuit America, that...
...asked the world to forget the rationalism of the past five hundred years and return to the philosophy of the thinkers of the Middle Ages. He declared that two of the evils resulting from our present rationalism are racism and Marxism, and assailed them as the principal anti-Christian powers at work in our world...
...Germanisation of the New Testament, issued in England by the Friends of Europe, and circulated in the U. S. last week. In a foreword, Dr. Howard Chandler Robbins, of Manhattan's General Theological Seminary, estimated that one-tenth of Germany's Protestant pastors have defied the predominantly anti-Christian Nazi State and suffered the consequences. About two-thirds are lying low, hoping the storm will blow past. The remainder have either joined Germany's innumerable pagan cults or, as "German Christians." have sought to purge Christianity of its inconvenient elements. Purgers-in-chief have been the German...
Pope Pius XI, since the Lateran Treaties of 1929, has been on good terms with Benito Mussolini. The Vatican newspaper L'Osservatore Romano has almost never spoken openly against the Government. Last week, however, it spoke sharply against antiSemitism: "Toward the Israelites we are not only extremely anti-Christian and anti-civil but inhuman. . . . Propaganda against Jews assumes, wherever it is organized and led, proportions unworthy of 20 centuries of Christian civilization!" That, at a time when semi-official Government newspapers had been indulging in anti-Semitic propaganda, was strong talk...