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...Catholic press . . . put Communist atheism and Hitler's positive Christianity on the same level. . . . The encyclical of Pope Pius XI, Mit brennender Sorge, [issued in March 1937] . . . not only condemned the totalitarian conception of the state but also the principles of National Socialism, particularly on blood and race. . . . The attitude of the Papacy . . . contributed very sensibly to the development of the war psychosis. . . . Numerous militant Catholics in France joined the warmonger's clique. This barking chorus of sulky dogs was made complete when Cardinal Verdier [in December 1937] declared that Christian doctrine and democratic principles were fundamentally identical...
...brief, the unfolding of the creative potentialities of these two countries for the period mentioned has been greater than of any other great nation. There is not a slightest doubt that it will continue in the future. There is no room to continue these similarities. But what about Communism, Atheism, Red Imperialism, enigmatic Stalin and so on? Are they not bound to clash with the "American way of life?" Hardly...
First, Russian revolution, in contradistinction to the German, Great French, Cromwellian and others, did not turn to external conquests, but remained a strictly Russian, internal affair. Second, since the middle of the nineteen thirties Communism, Atheism, and generally the destructive phase of the Revolution was over. All these became practically dead. Like many other revolutions, when their destructive phase is ended, Russian revolution revived and continued the living trends that existed before the revolution...
...found out and took him to the church, talking about her atheism on the way. In the run-down structure Graebner saw that its worshipers were "mostly elderly women with pale, deeply lined faces partly covered with grey shawls. . . . Every few seconds they gave the sign of the cross or touched their foreheads to the floor. Most of them seemed much happier afterwards...
...before you and the world that ... I have been decisively influenced and molded by the spiritual forces of Christianity and the Catholic Church. I see 'in the holy Catholic Church the purest power and emanation sent by God to this earth to fight the evils of materialism and atheism, and to bring revelation to the poor soul of mankind. That is why, although standing extra muros [outside the walls], I have made it my purpose to support with my modest and humble abilities the struggle which the Catholic Church fights against those evils and for the divine truth...