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...Postponed the concordat proposed in 1937 to unite the Episcopalian and Presbyterian Churches. Nevertheless, for the first time at a General Convention, the Episcopalians held a joint mass meeting with Presbyterians. Cried the Presbyterians' Moderator, Dr. William Lindsay Young (a fraternal delegate at the convention): "My earnest prayer tonight is that I may live to stand before you some time and address, not your church, not my church, but our church...
...letter, in which he spoke to quasi-fascist France as kindly as he did to the Polish hierarchy and faithful last autumn. The Pope predicted that God would "bring about reawakening of the entire nation." Last week the Vatican let it be known that negotiations for a new concordat were "progressing satisfactorily" with Germany, thanks to Nazi approval of the patriotic loyalty of German Catholics since World War II began...
...sure sign of the Vatican's attempt to do business as usual is its dickering with Germany. As Cardinal Pacelli, Pius XII negotiated the German-Vatican concordat of 1933. The Nazis have violated it ever since. Recently the Vatican began trying to clarify the future status of apostolic nunciatures at The Hague and Brussels, the future of German Catholics, the position of Catholics in Austria and Czechoslovakia. But there was a significant omission : relief for the worst persecuted Catholics of all, those in the German slice of Poland. In the interests of diplomacy the Vatican appears willing...
...Catholics had no hope for a concordat with Germany as favorable as that which went into effect Aug. i between the Vatican and Portugal (a dictatorship friendly to Britain). The Portuguese Government gave back to the Church nearly all the religious property it took over when Church & State were separated, gave civil value to Catholic marriages, promised to let the Church maintain its own schools...
...heard that Generalissimo Francisco Franco wished to expel, as hostile to his regime, Tarragona's Francisco Cardinal Vidal y Barraquer, who during the Spanish War was as near to being neutral as any ranking prelate (TIME, Dec. 26). Moreover, Franco wished to re-establish the 1851 concordat, which would enable him to appoint Spanish bishops, whereas the Vatican favored something more up-to-date. Franco appeared to be dunning the Church for payment for having protected...