Word: ja
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...prelate who covets no martyr's halo is Theodor Cardinal Innitzer, Archbishop of Vienna, who advised Austrians to vote ja in the plebiscite, was supposedly rebuked by the Vatican, and voted ja himself with a Nazi salute (TIME, April 18). Last week the Christian Century, able U. S. nondenominational weekly, published an article by Martin Schroeder, Lutheran student of German church affairs, which offered a novel but specious explanation of Cardinal Innitzer's actions. It is simply that ''Cardinal Innitzer has made a strong bid to head a national German episcopate," a church accountable only...
...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...
Catholic Angle. Nazi Bürckel front-paged, in Adolf Hitler's personal newspaper last week, photographic reproductions of a letter in which Catholics were urged to vote "Ja" in the coming plebiscite by Vienna Theodor Cardinal Innitzer, who at the bottom of his typewriting added in his own handwriting: "Heil Hitler...
Since some 95% of the Austrian people are Catholics, and since Orator Göring's serious purpose in Vienna was to persuade all Austrians to vote "Ja" on April 10,* the most conciliatory part of the speech was addressed to the Church. "We have no desire to destroy religion," said Hermann Wilhelm Göring. "In Germany we have not destroyed the Church but only the clerical politicians...
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...