Word: katholikentag
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...diocese as stimulating as a spur of the Alps. He has battled incessantly against the "youth dedication" ceremonies the Communists have been trying to substitute for Christian confirmation, and against the growing antichurch pressure of the East German regime. Last summer he played host at an all-German Katholikentag, which brought some 150,000 Catholics from both sides of the barrier together in West Berlin's Olympic Stadium. At the closing ceremonies he shouted his farewell message: "We will stay together...
Since the days of the Reformation, Berlin has been a Protestant stronghold, and often a place of bitter memory for Germany's Roman Catholics. Last week Catholics were again battling for their faith in Berlin, but not against the Protestants. The Katholikentag, the 75th official congress of German Catholics, found Catholics and Protestants solidly lined up against a common enemy: Communism...
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