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...Nazi-Catholic fight in Germany, brought to white heat by Chicago's George Cardinal Mundelein who declared that the immorality trials of Catholics in Germany "make Wartime propaganda stories look like bedtime tales" (TIME, May 31), has this crucial issue: Shall the Reich or shall the Catholic Church educate Germany's 2,000,000 or so Catholic children? Catholics hold that Hitler's campaign against monkish immorality is merely a lever to topple the entire German Catholic Church into a sewer of disrepute...
...Berlin diocese, declaring that not more than 58 of Germany's 25,635 priests could be suspected of immorality though the Reich had imprisoned for examination 915 (including lay brothers), ordered a pamphlet to be read from pulpits on the "Sunday of Youth." This was the Church's reply to a tirade three weeks ago by Propaganda Minister Dr. Paul Joseph Goebbels who, as a onetime star pupil of Jesuit priests, perhaps felt specially qualified to speak about the "general shocking decadence of morals'' among the German priesthood...
...that German Catholic monasteries were hotbeds of immorality. In a climactic, triumphant effort to squelch Catholicism on Aryan soil he threw all the immorality trials into the courts at the same time. He hoped that wholesale convictions would destroy the prestige of the Catholic Church for good, that the Reich's 2,000,000 or so Catholic children would be transformed without a hitch into little Brown Shirts...
This clerical thunder whipped Reich bigwigs and the Nazi press into a lather of fury. Through its news agency the Government roared: "The Vatican must decide whether it will allow the improper utterances of one of its servants to go unpunished or call him to order. . . ." Stormed Der Augriff: "Mundelein's challenge was made in a tone hitherto reserved for the wildest street agitator. He insults not only the German Minister [Goebbels] but the head of the State and the entire people including German Catholics...
...Regensberg of Munich, Bachem of Cologne. The Pope was reported to have finished his "White Book," a stack of evidence to show that Hitler, not the Vatican, has violated the Vatican-Nazi Concordat. It looked as though the Church was campaigning in as big a way as the Third Reich...