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This week at services in Bonn and West Berlin, Julius Cardinal Döpfner of Munich and other German Christian leaders mark the 20th anniversary of the July 1944 plot against Hitler, which involved so many devout Christians that it has become the symbol of the Ehrenretter, the lay and clerical martyrs who tried to save the honor of Christianity in those dark years. Two of the martyrs appear on a new series of stamps issued by the Federal Republic, but there were many more-at least 112 Catholic priests and 22 Protestant ministers -who died in German prison camps...
...Germany, largely because it is a young city. More than half of its 1,160,000 inhabitants are under 40, and 89% have yet to reach 65. Its lord mayor, 38-year-old Hans-Jochen Vogel, is West Germany's youngest civic leader, and Julius Cardinal Döpfner, at 50, is one of Roman Catholicism's leading liberals and youngest princes. Youth means vigor, and with an 8% annual economic-growth rate, Munich is the most vigorous city in the Bundesrepublik...
Weeks before the Munich convention opened, Julius Cardinal Döpfner and Lutheran Bishop Hermann Dietzfelbinger approved the publication of a broadside called "A Word to All Christians," which attacked Witness beliefs and urged homeowners not to rent rooms to the visitors. When Witness missionaries appeared on Munich streets to hawk the sect's publications, they were flanked by church-affiliated Boy Scouts, who rather unkindly passed out anti-Witness pamphlets...
...from unity-minded Cardinal Bea, the liberals have few friends in the Vatican Curia, but they do include such articulate prelates as Tanganyika's Laurean Cardinal Rugambwa, Utrecht's Bernard Jan Cardinal Alfrink, Montreal's Cardinal Léger, Munich's Julius Cardinal Döpfner, a clear majority of the bishops in France, The Netherlands, Germany, Austria, Africa and Asia...
...this holiday season the Wall seems to grow higher and stronger. In German, the future is often implied in the present tense. Berliners say. "Die Mauer bleibt" -the Wall remains, and will remain. Julius Cardinal Döpfner. Roman Catholic Archbishop of Munich, observed: "One can understand why countless people are afraid of Christmas Eve; because on that very evening all the misery of our divided families will break out. Then many will comprehend how high the Wall...