Word: catholicize
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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As in most concordats, the Church agrees to keep her priests out of politics, but considering the present violent, extemporaneous character of Nazi justice in German courts they were granted important guarantees. Even in Nazi Germany magistrates will have no power to force from Catholic priests the secrets of the...
"Unconditional Service?" In Berlin the acts of Adolf Hitler after the concordat was signed showed that he, reared a Catholic, still has a healthy respect for Rome. He promptly let out of jail all Catholic priests held on political charges. Moreover, he rescinded a whole batch of decrees under which...
"It appears to me," he cried, "that through the conclusion of the concordat sufficient guarantees have been given that German citizens of the Roman Catholic faith will henceforth put themselves unconditionally in the service of the new-Nazi State!"
From Canterbury the Lord Archbishop of Canterbury broadcast exaltation for the "restoration in England of the great conception of the Catholic Church."
In Atlantic City the College Catholic Clubs (Roman) used "Newman and the Oxford Movement" for the general theme of their conference.