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Franz von Papen, Vice Chancellor of the German Reich, home from Rome where he signed a concordat with the Vatican, made pilgrimage to the ancient Cathedral of Trier to venerate Christ's seamless coat* at the first services held for that purpose since...
...proof of this claim was in the German-Papal concordat. It consists of 35 articles, provides notably for the Catholic education of all children of Catholic parents in Germany. In districts where Catholics are in a majority the public schools shall be Catholic. Elsewhere Catholic children will attend separate Catholic schools. Thus Pope Pius retains in Germany a firm grip on what he likes to call "the dear youth...
...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 confessional, though they may browbeat Protestant parsons at pleasure. Finally the concordat, first ever signed by the Government of all Germany with the Holy See, supersedes, though it does not abolish the previous concordats existing between the Vatican and the German States of Prussia, Baden and Bavaria...
...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 Moreover, he rescinded a whole batch of decrees under which Catholic organizations had been dissolved, permitted them to reorganize. These acts showed where the Chancellor's heart inclined, but his voice as usual was raised in triumphant bombast...
...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...