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Before the invasion, Norway's Church had largely lost touch with the common people, and congregations were composed mainly of old folk. Young people were increasingly critical of the Church's value. They questioned whether the clergy, to whom the State often assigned the choicest farms in rural...
Archbishop Joseph Frings of Cologne and Bishop Laurenz Jaeger of Paderborn in Westphalia issued a pastoral letter warning their faithful against the Hitlerian campaign for more babies through forced marriages, or even no marriage at all. Noting a growth of free love, adultery and divorce, the prelates flatly denied the...
In an earlier pastoral letter the Archbishop of Cologne had got off a direct and public attack on Naziism: "The doctrine of the superman will not bring happiness and prosperity to men." It went unanswered. This week he joined with the Bishop of Paderborn in a denunciation of Nazi morality...
Copies of the eloquent pastoral letter (TIME, Sept. 21) of Archbishop Jules Geraud Saliège of Toulouse passed from pocket to pocket. In Lyon, Pierre Cardinal Gerlier repeatedly protested mass deportations, and a "Christian Amity" group preached tolerance for all. Laval ordered Father Chaillet, leader of the group, interned...
Vichy's continued surrender of Jews to the Nazis last week brought forth one of the war's most eloquent documents-a brief pastoral letter from Jules Géraud Saliège, the semiparalyzed Archbishop of Toulouse. Said the Archbishop in full: