Word: archbishop
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Nazi Germany's war on the Roman Catholic Church, Catholicism's most experienced critic of Nazi ideology is Michael Cardinal von Faulhaber, Archbishop of Munich. In practical dealings with Nazis no German prelate is more adroit than the noble Bishop of Münster, the Most Rev. Clemens August Count von Galen. Example: When Bishop Galen lately preached in his cathedral on the Church's role in the education of youth, a uniformed Nazi leaped up to shout: "How can anybody talk about youth if he himself has neither wife nor child...
Last week Bishop Galen was visiting in Rome. Five days before the Austrian plebiscite (see p. 23), he was drafted by the Holy See to do a diplomatic job of work on a colleague-Theodor Cardinal Innitzer, Archbishop of Vienna. Cardinal Innitzer and the Austrian bishops had admonished Austrian Catholics to vote Ja in the plebiscite, had subscribed that admonition with a fervent "Heil Hitler" (TIME, April 11). The Pope summoned Cardinal Innitzer to the Vatican for an explanation...
...Like a Dream," Same day at London the House of Lords raised a remarkable chorus of assent to the Nazification of Austria. The Archbishop of Canterbury and Primate of All England read to Their Lordships a letter he said he had just received from a very eminent Viennese artist who described the events in Austria as "a sudden salvation, which seemed to us like a dream...
Same day Dr. Jacob Weinbach, secretary to Cardinal Innitzer, Archbishop of Vienna, announced that all Catholic parishes in Austria will shortly receive a pastoral letter urging Catholics to vote "Ja." Jews have been excluded from voting...
...Catholic Church considers its current war against Communism as moral, not partisan. As vigorous an anti-Communist as any churchman in North America is His Eminence Jean Marie Rodrigue Cardinal Villeneuve, Archbishop of Quebec. No believer in freedom of the press, where it "accords the license to teach all error, gossip all calumny, and provide revolutionaries with a means to sing the benefits of revolution." Cardinal Villeneuve has been credited with suggesting Quebec's "Padlock Law." By this statute the Attorney General (Premier Maurice Duplessis ) may have any individual's home raided, any organization's office raided...